Remembering Ana, A Child Who Died of Cancer

Jacqueline Dooley
6 min readSep 17, 2019

It never feels like enough — these tokens of our love for Ana — but at least it’s something.

Ana in a selfie at age 14. (Photo courtesy of Jacqueline Dooley)

In a calendar full of months dedicated to specific illnesses, September is particularly painful. This is the month focused on childhood cancer awareness. You’ll see gold everywhere — gold ribbons, gold banners, gold-themed profile photos on social media, all in the name of awareness and…

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Jacqueline Dooley

Essayist, content writer, bereaved parent. Bylines: Human Parts, GEN, Marker, OneZero, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, Pulse, HuffPost, Longreads, Modern Loss