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A life interrupted. A love redefined. A second chance at everything. ""A precise, moving, and expertly crafted remembrance."" Kirkus Reviews One minute, Jim Zervanos was carrying his one-year-old son to a baseball game. The next, he was in the ER-fighting for breath, his body turning against him, doctors unable to explain why. For days, he lay suspended between answers and the unthinkable. His condition worsened. The best specialists were baffled. Then came the words no one is prepared to hear: there was nothing they could do. At forty-one, with a wife and young son, Jim began saying goodbye. Everything changed when a daring surgeon stepped in, performing a radical, last-chance operation that revealed the truth-lymphoma. What followed was a brutal confrontation with mortality: chemotherapy, uncertainty, and a long, disorienting road back to life. But survival was only the beginning. It would take five years for Jim to fully reckon with what he had endured-and what it meant to live after coming so close to death. That Time I Got Cancer: A Love Story is not just a story of illness. It's a story of presence in the face of fear, of love reshaped under pressure, and of the fragile, extraordinary bonds that hold us steady when everything else falls away. A deeply human account of loss, resilience, and awakening, this is the story of a man who came back-and learned, finally, how to be fully alive.

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Jim Zervanos is also the author of American Gyro, The English Teacher, and LOVE Park. His award-winning essays and short stories have been published in numerous literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. He is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and Bucknell University, where he won the William Bucknell Prize for English and was an Academic All-American baseball player. He teaches at a high school in the suburbs of Philadelphia, where he lives with his wife and two sons and has risen in the baseball pantheon as coach of two Little League teams. Visit: jimzervanos.com.

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