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But desperation changes the rules.<\/p>\n

Three months ago, my life was a high-wire act, and the safety net had just snapped. My mother, Julia, was dying. Stage IV breast cancer, metastasized to her lymph nodes and liver. The doctors at Mount Sinai gave her a year, maybe less. She had spent twenty-four years\u2014my entire life\u2014scrubbing floors in Manhattan penthouses to keep a roof over our heads in Brooklyn. Now, she was fighting a war she couldn\u2019t afford. The co-pays were crushing us. The chemotherapy was a thief that stole her hair, her energy, and every cent we had.<\/p>\n

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But desperation changes the rules. Three months ago, my life was a high-wire act, and the safety net had just snapped. My mother, Julia, was dying. Stage IV breast cancer, metastasized to her lymph nodes and liver. The doctors at Mount Sinai gave her a year, maybe less. She had spent twenty-four years\u2014my entire life\u2014scrubbing…<\/p>\n

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