"glioblastoma multiforme is a mean relentless horror", from page 28 of Hunter Biden's Beautiful Things, in reference to his brother Beau's cancer diagnosis. I will continue to read this book, even though those words struck me like a blow across the face. I will continue to read because I know those words when I heard my own mother's diagnosis of the same. I will continue to read because of beautiful things in the story of their lives, that the diagnosis is not what defined them. but the beauty of the lives they lived. Beau Biden, 1969-2105, Anne Venti Nozzolillo, 1921-1983
