Claudia's Wedding, São Paulo,
August, 1995
Rony and Claudia
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But first Claudia was getting married and
I insisted no plans be changed: I would start chemotherapy
after her wedding. So it
was that in August of 1995 all of us--me, Kendall, Raquel and Christopher--went
to São Paulo for Claudia and Rony's wedding. The wedding was
everything we could have hoped for, but I also began to feel the first social
effects of cancer, for my sisters insisted on following the tradition from
my home town of Cuiabá to not tell loved ones about terminal illnesses and decided not to tell my parents. This gave me the added burden and stress of keeping my terror silent in front of my mother and father who were, of course, at the wedding. The pendant neckless I'm wearing in the photo on this page is placed to hide the ugly scar on my throught from the medistinoscopy |
Neila
and Kendall |
Nilson and Niní
Constantino |
Families at Wedding |
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