I kept seeing her most prized possession sitting in the backseat of the car: her favorite child, my baby brother, Mateo. The nonproblematic child. The healthy child. The eleven-year-old boy who protested against her cruel decision to abandon his gravely ill sister. The child she refused to lose to cancer. March 2012. A single doctor's statement of three words morphs a family's merriment into turmoil and distress. An ordinary teenage girl is forced into a battle against cancer for the second time in her life. But for the first time, she is evasively forced by her mother into fighting the...

I kept seeing her most prized possession sitting in the backseat of the car: her favorite child, my baby brother, Mateo. The nonproblematic child. The healthy child. The eleven-year-old boy who protested against her cruel decision to abandon his gravely ill sister. The child she refused to lose to cancer. March 2012. A single doctor's statement of three words morphs a family's merriment into turmoil and distress. An ordinary teenage girl is forced into a battle against cancer for the second time in her life. But for the first time, she is evasively forced by her mother into fighting the...