And maybe, if she’s lucky, fall in love. Try drugs (besides the kind she takes for her cancer treatment). Spend a day saying nothing but “yes†to every question she’s asked. Instead, she composes a list of all the things she wants to do before the cancer takes her. It’s really, really true.†But Tessa isn’t about to take the matter of death lying down. “It’s really going to happen…I really won’t ever go back to school…I’ll never go to college or have a job…I won’t travel, never earn money, never drive, never fall in love or leave home or get my own house. She is going to die, probably before next spring. Sixteen-year-old Tessa Scott has incurable leukemia.
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