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by JUNE RACHELSON-OSPA<\/b><\/a> and DANIEL NEIDEN<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Based on the short story \u201cSTUPID WIG\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

by SHIRLEY SPURGEON<\/b><\/p>\n

What happens when STAR WARS helps a 4th Grader fight her WAR against Leukemia?<\/b><\/p>\n

Our heroic ten year old starfighter, Shirley, battles against monsters more terrifying than Darth Vader: Leukemia! Fear! Alienation! And a very scaaary, eeevil, STUPID WIG. Responding “as Princess Leia would,” Shirley is armed only with her out-of-this-galaxy imagination, and her boundless love for her grandfather. “My Han Solo. My Tata.\u201d A true love story for any galaxy.<\/p>\n

Shirley K. Larkin-Spurgeon’s story of Leukemia Survival<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was born on August 20, 1970 in San Fernando, California. My parents divorced when I was five and we moved to the Antelope Valley in 1977 where I was raised by my Hispanic mother and grandparents. In 1979, I was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The doctors at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles told my family I had three months left. Obviously, I didn’t die but did relapse ten years later in 1989 and again in 1992. Children’s transferred me to City of Hope where I survived a bone marrow transplant.<\/p>\n

Eventually I graduated from The Master’s College with a bachelor\u2019s degree in 1994 and teaching credential in 1997. I taught elementary school for several years in conjunction with piano which I had studied since the age of eight. I currently teach piano and am pursuing a career as an author of children’s stories.<\/p>\n

As a child, my Tata (grandfather) would tell me stories of when he was a boy in Bisbee, Arizona during the Great Depression. His great story telling often cheered me up when I was sick. I always wanted to document his stories and that is what inspired me to write.<\/p>\n

\u201cStupid Wig\u201d<\/i> is about my trials as a child with cancer. It is based on actual events that transpired during my illness. It’s main focus is my coming to terms with losing my hair and having to wear a wig. It’s educational, humorous and encouraging. The story has been published as part of an anthology titled \u201cIt’s Tough Growing Up: Children’s Stories of Courage\u201d<\/i> compiled by Marilyn Dalrymple and Joan Foor.<\/p>\n

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