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On the other side of the kitchen’s swinging door are the employees: worldly-wise war veterans, savvy waitresses, and acerbic bartenders.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eFor Stevie, it’s a world of constant motion, noise, and wonder.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eBut his life is about to change in a way no one could have predicted.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eGrowing up can be hard to do—and there may be no way of avoiding it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003e_______________\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003ePub date: 14-Jul-2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003ePage count: 224\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vine Leaves Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57739798675781,"sku":"LTKASZVLP","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0810\/2366\/4453\/files\/LeavetheKidAlone.png?v=1776764643"},{"product_id":"welcome-to-perfectville-by-yvonne-eve-walus-ebook","title":"Welcome to Perfectville by Yvonne Eve Walus (eBook)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003e“Thrums with tension that ratchets up with every new revelation.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003e Bev Robitai, author of \u003ci\u003eSunstrike\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eA perfect world is a controlled one.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eThirty years ago, a group of idealists built Perfectville—an isolated town with no crime, no competition, and no chaos. 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Then came the words no one is prepared to hear: there was nothing they could do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt forty-one, with a wife and young son, Jim began saying goodbye.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEverything changed when a daring surgeon stepped in, performing a radical, last-chance operation that revealed the truth—lymphoma. What followed was a brutal confrontation with mortality: chemotherapy, uncertainty, and a long, disorienting road back to life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut survival was only the beginning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt would take five years for Jim to fully reckon with what he had endured—and what it meant to live after coming so close to death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThat Time I Got Cancer: A Love Story\u003c\/em\u003e is not just a story of illness. 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