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What I Want For My Birthday

Posted on December 21, 2012 by miranda
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What I want for my birthday:
Health and happiness for my family and friends
A way to cure, or better yet, prevent all cancer so that I can retire, PLEASE!
And, of course, world peace.
To all my other friends who share my late December Christmas-birthday, I hope you get TWO presents this year!
Best wishes–Miranda
Posted in General Observations | Tagged Birthday Wishes | 8 Replies


 

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In 2012, I realized that my thirty plus years of practice as a radiation oncologist had provided me with an abundance of stories–happy, sad, compelling and inspiring–and that these stories needed to be told. Along the way, stories from my “other life” as a mother of three, a daughter, an animal lover, and an occasional world traveler crept in. I hope you enjoy my stories as much as I enjoy telling them.

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