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This is a Mother s Day story, but it is really about sisters,about how it took two of them to make one of them a mother. It is astory about cancer and the shadow it cast over the lives of thesewomen, since melissa Brown was 2 and her sister, Jessica, was ababy. It s a story, in part, about death. But ultimately, it sabout life two new lives, to be exact and the unexpectedroads that women sometimes travel to motherhood. Melissa, an attorney, and Jessica, a jeweler, grew up in Cape May,N.J., sharing clothes and secrets. They re best friends who talkon the phone every day. When
There is a whole list ofrequirements a gestational carrier should have, says Gracia. Jessica didn t meet any of those criteria. I was very concernedfrom the get-go. But Jessica came alone to meet with Gracia. She said all the rightthings that she understood that unforeseen complications couldleave her unable to have children of her own, that she wasn tbeing coerced.
I amgoing to be a mother. I am in awe. Thank you. Thank you.
What seemed normal at leastin her group of friends was to have a baby. By the summer of2009, at least six of her friends were pregnant. Aug. 15, 2009 Babies are a blessing and I am so thrilled for all of our friends.Yet I cannot stop crying. I can t help but feel the loss ofchildren.
In July, her mother died. July 27, 2008 Today Mommy lost her battle with breast cancer. I have never feltas hopeless as I did standing there holding her hand, looking intoher eyes as she coded. She was 54 years old, too young to leavethis world.
( MORE: Baby-Selling Scam Focuses Attention on Surrogacy ) There were other things Melissa, now 30, and Jessica, 27, shared:the specter of cancer, for one. Their mother, Gail, was diagnosedwith breast cancer in 1984 at the age of 30, when the girls weretoo young to understand what it must have been like for her toundergo treatment, including a bilateral mastectomy, as the parentof a baby and a toddler. Her treatment from her initial Stage 3diagnosis until scans showed no signs of disease lasted threeyears. Melissa, who was 5 by that time, remembers going todoctor s appointments with her mother
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