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Betty P. Notzon
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The Orange Dragon Bowl
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The Orange Dragon Bowl
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Breast Cancer: An Unwanted Christmas Gift
Often something unfortunate happens around Christmas, making the celebration of the holiday forever after tinged with the sadness of the event, though the sadness recedes over time. In THE ORANGE DRAGON BOWL, Julie Tyler's mother is diagnosed with what turns out to be a very serious kind of breast cancer three days before Christmas. Below is the beginning of the story of Julie's unwanted Christmas
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“The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
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“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― Alarms and Discursions
― Alarms and Discursions
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What do you do when everything in your life goes to hell? Fifteen-year-old Julie Tyler is about to find out. A minor incident with a schoolmate unleashes a year of nonstop vicious lies, mean pranks, and academic sabotage. Two days before Christmas, her mother is diagnosed with a very serious form of breast cancer that nearly kills her. And then her father's reputation as a highly regarded assistant D.A. is dragged very publicly through the mud. What has unleashed this dark force in their lives? And why?? Life is good in rare spurts, and the friendship of Gloria Jackson, an older girl at school, who is also the only black student there, is a huge help. Sometimes Julie’s warped sense of humor is her only weapon. Is Richard Egan, whom she meets at the end of the book, a reward for her awful year?
