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A Mother's Prayer is a striking memoir about an ordinary woman doing extraordinary things, persisting for the sake of her family, mainly her three children. Steve's mother, Anne, asserted her newfound womanhood while confronting a deadly disease. She battled cancer for thirteen years while raising three children and working three low-wage jobs. During the last four years of her life, she was a single mother after her husband fled New York to live in California with another woman. Anne's family begged her to return to Vermont. She refused, believing a return home represented failure if she could not overcome a deadly disease on her own while raising three children. In her weakest moments, as her illness persisted, Anne mourned the loss of her beauty and the touch of a lover, claiming, ""No man wants this body."" In her bravest moments, she wore bikinis at public swimming pools, scars exposed, her body a reminder that we all suffer.

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Steve Rand is an author and director for civic engagement at Norwich University. After serving in the Navy as a photographer, he studied English, history, and education at The University of Vermont, where he won a writing award, the UVM Allbee Award for Excellence in Writing. He has a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Dartmouth College. His focus of study was creative writing and cultural studies. He and his wifelive in Vermont. They have four children and three grandchildren. Steve enjoys skiing, mountain biking, and hiking.

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