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I began writing a memoir about my run across America for my mother in the winter of 2018. Both of my parents had suddenly died one month apart, and my second child was just months old. My ability to care about what was expected of me took a hard nose dive, and what emerged in its place was a love of writing and an affection for being real—the messiness, the nuances, the painful and difficult circumstances that come from living in the shadow of chronic illness—all this came to light in a new way in the wake of such abrupt grief and change.

I’ve since become less interested in presenting only my shiny parts. Rather, I wish to share the whole, complicated view.

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