Moving into sixth grade was a big step up into middle school, what with combination lockers and boy/girl dances and all. Janet had been diagnosed [...]

In the years leading up to that first round of treatment, my dad had spent lots of weekends singing-for-hire with the We3. Jim’s daughter Teri [...]

Halfway through my first year of middle school, Janet was making a point of noting whether our names were on one of two lists called [...]