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Finding Life—After Life As You Know It Ends
What happens
when all you wanted becomes yours and then, like the receding tide, begins to
slip away?
That’s the
question Annette Wick was forced to answer when her young husband was diagnosed
with leukemia. What would become of their idyllic marriage? Their
infant son? Her dream home on the Oregon coast?
This inspiring
story traces Annette’s brave adventure into the dark valley of despair and back
again to the warm sunshine of hope. Told in the voice of a poet, I’ll Be in the
Car is, ultimately, a story of joy and triumph.
Take this
journey and discover for yourself that when life as you know it ends, there’s
still an abundance of life to be lived.
Three
Arch Press presents I'll Be in the Car, a poetic account chronicling the real-life experiences of
author Annette Wick as her husband is diagnosed with, and ultimately dies from
leukemia. Poignantly, this story
portrays the even greater challenge for the caregiver--finding life after losing
someone so important to every aspect of who you are. For anyone who has or will experience
loss, Annette Wick reminds readers, caregivers and widows - We are not alone. We
all share the common thread of struggling to live again.
READ THE OPENING PAGE.
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"Devin’s quirks disguised
that one fault beneath his exterior, one that ran deeper than the
cancer in his blood. Occasionally, it had surfaced before special
nights out. As I finished dressing, Devin would announce,
“I’ll be in the car!”
The fact that he sat alone
in the car still upset me, not because he used the time to make
calls or arrange his music collection, but that he was confident in
leaving—without me." - excerpt |
Annette
Januzzi Wick was born in northern Ohio and now lives in Cincinnati with her
son, and her newly blended family. Excerpts from
I'll Be in
the Car
were awarded Honorable Mention in the
73rd Annual Writer's
Digest Competition. I'll Be in the Car was awarded Finalist,
Best Books
2006 Autobiography/Memoir. Read more from Annette's collection.
The
National Leukemia and Lymphoma Society selected I'll Be in the
Car for distribution to its 60plus chapters in the U.S. and
Canada and posted it as a selected read on its website
www.lls.org. She has been
a contributor to Cancer Family Care newsletters, as well
as the magazine Living with Loss.
Annette is an enthusiastic supporter of
Women Writing for (a) Change,
a creative feminist writing center that encourages the use of writing
in community as an "important creative, spiritual and therapeutic
practice." (Mary Pierce Brosmer).
I'll Be in
the Car was selected by National Leukemia &
Lymphoma Society to be distributed to U.S. and
Canadian chapters. The LLS will also list I'll
Be in the Car on its selected reading list.
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