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Tweleve Weeks in Spring

The Inspiring Story Of Margaret And Her Team

by (author) June Callwood

Publisher
Key Porter Books
Initial publish date
Jan 2003
Category
Women, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781552635391
    Publish Date
    Jan 2003
    List Price
    $22.95

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Description

Twelve Weeks in Spring is the touching inspiring story of 68-year-old Margaret Frazer who in 1985 was facing a lonely battle with terminal cancer. A single woman who had spent her lifetime giving to others was repaid when those who had been touched by her gathered together, to allow Margaret to pass peacefully, laying eyes on one last spring in her garden. Twelve Weeks in Spring is a vivid portrait of a life ending, against all odds, in a defiant blossoming of vitality and love. (January 2003)

About the author

We will always be grateful to June Callwood for beginning this lecture series with a grace, style, and enthusiasm that set the standard for all that followed. She came to campus after a long and storied career in journalism and social activism in Canada, a writer of magazine stories and books, a television host, and the founder of a home for people dying of AIDS. We put up posters and waited to see what would happen. That evening our 140-seat lecture hall filled, and there was still a lineup out into the courtyard. She invited students to come and sit on the stage at her feet. She told them her knees might look cute but they weren't worth a damn. June Callwood died on April 14, 2007.

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