Perfect Shelter
No romance or no physical intimacy at all.
Closed door. No anatomical or crude language.
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A story about sisters. A story about love. A story about how it feels when someone close to you has cancer. When the author's uncle was diagnosed with cancer, she wrote this text for her children, to help them name and explore the complicated feelings borne of heartbreaking situations.
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