Why Do You Think Ruthie Was the Way She Was?

Ruthie had stage four cancer how are you Ruthie and she's skin and bones I'm great she would say her oncologist told me. You should have seen her in the chemo chemotherapy room toward the end she was skin and bones but she would walk around to the new patients coming in we're getting chemo sit down and said she was just an angel that way. She wanted so badly for her children to be protected from the fear and the terror of her death that she just she felt that she had to absorb it all  and take care of everybody around her. The opening anecdote of the book tells us about a time when my dad spanked me as a child