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    When Life Comes at You, Fight Back...
    When Life Comes at You, Fight Back...
    When Life Comes at You, Fight Back...
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    When Life Comes at You, Fight Back...

    By Heather A. Hogeboon

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    In this second collection of poetic works the author shares her last 5 years
    since her original cancer diagnosis. This collection has 7 sections of poems
    including; Poems of Inspiration, Strength, and Hope, Poems Dedicated to
    our Military soldiers and families, Poems Straight from the Soul, Poems of
    Nature, Poems to make you Smile, Poems of Friendship and Family, and
    Poems from a Father's Heart. This book is for all ages young to old and has
    poems for all to enjoy.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateOct 14, 2011
    ISBN9781463443047
    When Life Comes at You, Fight Back...
    Author

    Heather A. Hogeboon

    Growing up and living in a small town in Upstate New York I am proud to be publishing my second book of poetry. My life has taken many twists and turns from high school, college, marriage, becoming a mother of 3 sons, teaching at a local school district, and then my diagnosis of cancer. During my time of recovery I published my first book, Everything Happens for a Reason in December 2006. In this second book of my poetic works I will take you through the last 5 years of my life since my breast cancer diagnosis in March, 2006. I have been through a great deal of hardships since my diagnosis and have used my writing to keep myself "on track" with life. Some of the hardships other than the cancer have included Bankruptcy and losing my home of 15 years, divorce, other health diagnoses including Major Severe Depression. Through all my tearful journey and my smiles as well, I have written poems for all to enjoy. Some are dedicated to our military and their families. I want others to know in this world around us there is always someone worse off than you, you must always rise above and prosper no matter how deep you feel your difficulties are. Also, When Life Comes at You, Fight Back...

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      When Life Comes at You, Fight Back... - Heather A. Hogeboon

      HOPE FOR A CURE

      This means so much to me

      for all of you who don’t know,

      it changes your life forever

      and NEVER really lets you go…

      For some reason

      my favorite color used to be purple,

      but now I wear pink

      day in and day out

      I live by the sign,

      a ribbon turned about…

      Hope for a cure

      is what this ribbon states,

      I wish we could find a cure

      so no one would ever face

      the endurance of this disease

      at a fast and furious pace

      it takes over your body

      in a mean and nasty way…

      But for now I will hope

      like many others do

      and someday with technology

      I will hear the word cure

      and then we will be for

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