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I had cancer for fourteen months and wrote a memoir about the experience.

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Natalie Goldberg
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Experience
Fourteen
Memoir
Cancer
Wrote
Months

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