Meredith Baxter  

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Epochalips: As I friend, I knew about your recent recurrence of breast cancer. Are you ready to go public with it?

MB: Yes, why not? My first bout with cancer was in 1999. I was cancer free until this spring when I found a lump in the same spot as before...

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...don't snarl at me because I ask for decaf or non-fat milk or look at me like I should be having a senior coffee at McDonalds. One of my biggest gripes is people who cannot multitask while making the various coffees, or they get all fancy with the swirly milk and make designs and take too damn long....

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It's taken most of a lifetime and a perfect match to understand this quirk of mine. My wife is teaching me what love really is as she embraces this flawed being. She's teaching me that flaws are not flaws: they are what make us ourselves when we're not trying to conform to someone else's agenda of normal. What makes me this way? I don't know the answer any more than I know why I'm gay or how I came to be able to put pretty words on a page or how my wife got so wise and understanding...  

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Since I've been writing my play about James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry in the 1950s I've been listening to a lot of music from that period so I revisited Sarah and remembered that "This Bitter Earth" was really my favorite of her songs followed closely by "Drinking Again."  Call her jazz, pop, whatever you will; it's a voice not to be forgotten.  Thank the ancestors for You Tube Music!  I just listened to her again and she still gives me goosebumps!  Check her out.  

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