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Jenifer Estess is a beautiful, successful, thirtysomething New Yorker with dreams of starting her own family when she is diagnosed with ALS, a fatal disease. Doctors tell her to max out her credit cards and prepare to die. That is precisely when Jenifer starts to live -- dreaming deeper,... read more
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- Reed
- Lorna
- Meredith
- Dr. Rowland
- Peter
- Willis
- Simon
- Jenifer
- Mrs. Kelly
- Jane
- Martha
- Kate
- Alison
- Chris
- Michael
- James
- Harrison
- Jules
- Donna
- Jenny
- Dr. Rothstein
- Hubbell
- Scott
- Elsa
- Dr. Hainline
- Phil
- Jeff
- John
- Caran
- Geoff
- Barbra Streisand
- Timmy
- Bud
- Vaccaro
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“She was a working girl who put on her best face, fought for the life she dreamed of having, and dedicated her last years to fighting the sorry state of brain disease research. Not a shabby resumé. Not her first choice by any stretch, but Jenifer's story shows that sometimes, your Plan B can be okay-miraculous. There's gold for us along the way if we can open our eyes enough to see it. The gold is in the getting there, in the holding on, in the reaching. That was Jenifer's experience. Maybe it's yours, too.”
Valerie Estess
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Nature designed human beings to rationalize loss. We are programmed to make comforting excuses for ourselves when painful things happen. Without rationalization, we’d all go off the deep end.
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It occurred to us that we had been looking for answers everywhere outside. In our sadness and desperation, we had forgotten our own true strength. Then we stopped looking outside and turned our attentions in.
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My inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of errands in my own neighborhood were being violated by ALS.
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My bed was no longer a place for sleeping or watching TV or making love. It was my hiding place.
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Combine love, work, compassion, and you will some day, in some way, get to the mountaintop. Making the climb is the ultimate honor and privilege, I now know.
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MARCH 17,1997, was a very windy day in New York City. Walking up Amsterdam Avenue to the gym that morning, I wanted to turn around and go home.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jenifer Estess (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Atria Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0743476824
Page Count: 224
Publisher: Atria Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0743476824
Page Count: 224
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- Dewey: 362.196839
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