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Columnist Chronicles Life With Cancer

Sunday, April 22, 2007 1:45:54 PM
By FRANK ELTMAN

In this Sept. 2006 photo provided by the photographer, newspaper columnist Lauren Terrazzano, who is living with lung cancer,  is seen in North Bergen, N.J.  Described by colleagues as a tenacious, hard-nosed street reporter, Terrazzano has drawn praise for sharing her own story in "Life, With Cancer," a column she has been writing in the Long Island newspaper Newsday since October. (AP Photo/Veronica Marino)GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) - A sense of humor helps, Lauren Terrazzano says, when you're dying of cancer. If there's a heaven, the newspaper columnist wrote recently, she plans to have a drink with John F. Kennedy Jr., who crashed near Martha's Vineyard, and then "thwack him on the head for flying that night in the fog."

And, if she somehow winds up in hell, she wants to meet the guy "who invented the tape that keeps your IV in place. I will proceed to wrap him in it, like a mummy, and then peel it off. Slowly.

"I hope he is very hairy."


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