LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL even when it has a little cancer in it.
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It's not easy to live your best life as a bald girl in Houston, Texas, Big Hair capital of the Western World. Diagnosed with blood cancer at age thirty-two, Joni Rodgersthe aspirational mom of a rambunctious five-year-old girl and a scary-smart seven-year-old boystepped into the crucible of chemotherapy determined to laugh, stay sane, and leave a handprint of lovingkindness that would sustain her family through a lifetime she would probably not be there to witness. Juggling motherhood, marriage, and a pipe dream she refused to give up on, Joni embarked on an emotionally and physically tortured two-year journey of treatment and self-reinvention, astonished to discover that the monster trying to kill her would ultimately teach her how to live.