Laboring for each breath, straining for each word, speaking in a staccato rhythm, Gloria Strauss prays from her hospital bed. “I’ve never actually thought about what’s in my body. And what it’s doing, ...

Gloria Strauss wanted a party when she was healed. Maybe a luau or something of similar extravagance. As cancer crept through her body, she leaned on her vivid imagination to picture triumph and ...