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ANDREA WILSON WOODS is a keynote speaker, a writer who loves to tell stories, and a patient advocate who founded the nonprofit Blue Faery: The Adrienne Wilson Liver Cancer Association. For over ten years, Andrea worked in the education field as a teacher and professor for public and private schools as well as universities. Andrea obtained her master’s degree in professional writing from the University of Southern California; her nonfiction writing has won national awards. Her best-selling and award-winning book, Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days, is a medical memoir about raising and losing her sister to liver cancer.

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	Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days 4.55 avg rating — 284 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I’d Rather Be Dead Than Deaf: A Young Woman’s Journey with Liver Cancer by E. Adrienne Wilson (Goodreads Author), Andrea Wilson Woods (Goodreads Author) (editor) 4.23 avg rating — 39 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Fairest (Arles Shepherd Thriller, #2)

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“Children leave you, so do husbands and lovers but your sisters—they are the only ones with you from crib till death.” —Unknown”
― Andrea Wilson Woods, Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days

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“That cardboard represented the white trash side of my mother’s family I had been running away from my whole life.”
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