Word: lymphosarcoma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speaker is Sandy, a pretty, warm-eyed young widow who had been pregnant with her second child when doctors had diagnosed her husband's lymphosarcoma. At first she hesitated to tell Mark, then 29, that he had but five months to live. But there was a tradition of honesty in their marriage, and she realized she needed to draw strength from him. "The truth set us free," she says. "When I told him, he cried ... But a huge weight lifted because we could share it." Sneaking her new baby into the hospital under a poncho, Sandy nursed...