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What started as a published author's online journal has taken on a life of its own. Anansi and Friends is a small book by a small woman about a big experience. From chemo haikus to real-time reflections, Sally Huggins Toner takes her readers on a sometimes humorous, often poignant, but always honest trip through breast cancer diagnosis, treatment, recovery, and beyond.

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Last year Sally joined a sisterhood that none of us wanted to be a part of, but once you're in, there's no going back. If you're not part of this group, you definitely know someone who is. Through different genres, Sally takes the reader through her initiation and shares her experiences. I found her haikus most compelling. Her journey gives us all hope. --Jo Ann Pearson, 28 year survivor This deeply personal collection of poems, haikus and journal entries is full of hope and humor, and at times healthy scorn for cancer and its impact on our lives. Sally deftly explores universal feelings that are all too familiar to cancer survivors--from those first feelings of panic and disbelief when your doctor reveals your diagnosis to the hope and nagging uncertainty that come when you're told the cancer is gone. For anyone currently on this journey, who has been on this journey, or knows someone who has been diagnosed, this book provides solace and demonstrates how love is always stronger than cancer. --Lisa Rabasca Roepe, Freelancer for Ozy.com, Fast Company, The Christian Science Monitor, CoveyClub, Family Circle, Breast Cancer Survivor

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Sally Toner is a high school English teacher who has lived in the Washington, D.C. area for over 20 years. Her poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in Gargoyle Magazine, The Delmarva Review, Watershed Review, and other publications. She lives in Reston, Virginia with her husband and two daughters.

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