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After a lifetime beside his sister, a brother has six weeks to keep one final promise. When an unexpected diagnosis brought Nancy home for hospice, the doctor gave her about six weeks. For her brother Bill, those weeks became more than a countdown. They became the final chapter in a family story shaped by duty, silence, erased women, hidden labor, and weight carried quietly from one generation to the next. Moving between Nancy's final days and the generations that came before her, Six Weeks is a literary memoir about caregiving, sibling love, family fracture, and a promise between siblings to reconcile the choices they made, the choices made for them, and the weight carried forward. At its center is Nancy: funny, stubborn, faithful, private, and determined to meet the end with dignity. With those who loved her nearby, her brother tries to give her that dignity through the language he has always trusted: work, presence, protection, and love expressed through action. Restrained, intimate, and deeply personal, Six Weeks is a witness against erasure and a record of what it means to carry someone home with grace.

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William Ledbetter is a New Jersey-based writer and business executive. Over the course of his career, he has worked as both a CPA and an IT executive in large, complex organizations. Six Weeks is his first book. He wrote it to fulfill a final promise to his sister Nancy, as a reflection on meeting hardship with a blend of duty and grace, and as a testament to the quiet, devoted love of those who surrounded her in hospice-the kind that shows up, stays, and does the work.He lives in New Jersey with his family.

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