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Remembering my sister Jennifer- I was told this morning that she passed away last night. Me, our mother Zelma, Jennifer and Tim on Mom's 75th birthday, July 16, 1991. It was always “Jennifer”, as our mother insisted that we not call her Jen or Jenny or anything else, always Jennifer. As I remember it- It was either 1969 or 1970 and the family was living in Monterey Park, near Los Angeles. At 18, Jennifer had just returned from a school trip to Europe where she had felt unnaturally fatigued and had also noticed a lump on her neck. Our mother had taken her to the doctor’s for testing and on a Friday afternoon they went back to review the results. They were told that the tests showed that Jennifer had something called “Hodgkin’s Disease”. The doctor told her that he did not know much about this condition, but that he had made an appointment for her at White Memorial Hospital the following Monday where they had specialists that could better discuss treatmen...