I was 16, not 32; it was heart disease, not cancer.
I lost my mother at the age of 16 on 12/24/98. This book was recommended to me by a lady saying it would help me, it didn't. In fact, it made me scared to have kids from the accounts of other womens' horror stories of trying to raise thier childeren after they had lost thier mother. Hope Edelman had lost her mother to cancer, as did seem a lot of the other women. She didnt touch down on other diseases besides cancer and also sucide. My mother died of a form of heart disease. It was mentioned only a couple of times. It was hard to read knowing that is Edelman's opion, Motherless Daughters will never heal. That they carry pain with them for the rest of thier lives. As true as it may be, it has severly put a negative outlook on my oun mouring. And for the record, childern can mourn just as long if not more than adults. And it hurts just as much. No matter how old you are.........