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Allison Gilbert is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, contributor to the New York Times, and one of the most influential writers and speakers on life’s deepest challenges. She is co-author with the late Dr. Ruth Westheimer of The Joy Connections: 100 Ways to Beat Loneliness and Live a Happier and More Meaningful Life.

Allison is the author of numerous critically-acclaimed books, including Passed and Present, Always Too Soon, and Parentless Parents, each inspired by the early deaths of her parents from cancer. For Listen, World!, her co-authored biography of Hearst syndicated newspaper columnist Elsie Robinson, she won the 2023 Northern California Book Award.

Nearly killed by falling debris covering the 2001 terrorist attacks, she is co-edito
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My Two and a Half Centimeter Time Bombs

When my mother was dying of ovarian cancer, I was twenty-five. Back then, now more than a decade ago, I took advantage of the kind of freedom I would never know again; not yet married, without children, I was able to put my life on hold and focus completely on the end of hers. I took time off from work, left my boyfriend alone in our apartment, and moved back home. Under the same roof...

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Passed and Present

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