Mothers by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2020-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

LETTER 21

LIVE A LIFE WORTH LIVING

Julie Yip-Williams to Mia and Isabelle

July 2017

On 19 March 2018, almost five years after being diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer, thirty-eight-year-old Julie Yip-Williams died, leaving behind a husband and two daughters. Her early years had been anything but easy. Born blind in Vietnam, at two months of age she was almost euthanised on the orders of a grandmother who deemed her to be defective; years later, as an older child, she sailed to Hong Kong with her family and hundreds of other refugees in search of a more peaceful life, eventually settling down in the US where her life improved drastically. She was soon given partial sight by a surgeon, studied at Harvard, and became a successful lawyer, but then, in her thirties, she was struck down by the illness that would kill her. It was then she began writing a popular blog about her experience with cancer, which was posthumously published as a memoir. A year before she passed away, Yip-Williams wrote a letter to her young daughters.

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