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Female
52 years old
fullerton, California
United States
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MY DETAILS
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CANCER TYPE:
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Esthesioneuroblastoma |
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MEMBER SINCE:
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10 Jul 2006, 5:42 pm |
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LAST LOGIN:
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11 Apr 2013, 6:22 pm |
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MUSIC
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Duke Ellington, Steely Dan, Beethoven's late string quartets, Bach's Suite No. 2 in B minor, Dvorak's Allegretto Grazioso.
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BOOKS
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Gabriel Garcia Márquez, *Love in the Time of Cholera,* Roland Barthes, *A Lover's Discourse,* e.e. cummings poetry, T.S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," Robert Stam and Ella Shohat, *Unthinking Eurocentrism."
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MOVIES
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*Le mépris,* *Il conformista,* *La battaglia di Algeri,* *La meglio gioventù,* *The Way We Were,* *Double Indemnity.*
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ABOUT ME
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Italian national, Yale Ph.D, Film Studies professor at a Southern California university, vegan, animal rights activist, feminist, human companion of an umbrella cockatoo, Alba. A cancer patient: esthesioneuroblastoma, a rare malignant neoplasm of the nasal cavity that was first discovered in France in 1924. Only 1,100 cases have been diagnosed worldwide. I was misdiagnosed at first ("just a polyp") and then the Cleveland Clinic saved my life. I underwent endoscopic resection followed by six weeks of radiation therapy. I would like to contact other patients to exchange thoughts and experiences, the rare birds that we are!
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HOBBIES
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Staying alive. 8 years and counting.
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MY FRIENDS
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godard has 5 friend(s)
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