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After forty-two days you will no longer turn with your heart racing, certain you have heard her call out your name. That there will be no fine imposed if you feel the need to clean out her desk; take down her artwork from the refrigerator; turn over a school portrait as you pass --- it only because it cuts you fresh again to see it. That it is okay to measure the time she has been gone, the way we once measured her birthdays.

For a long time, afterward, my father claimed to see Anna in the night sky. Sometimes it was the wink of her eye, sometimes the shape of her profile. He insisted that stars were people who were so well loved they were traced in constellations, to live forever. My mother believed, for a long time, that Anna would come back to her. She began to look for signs --- plants that bloomed too early, eggs with double yolks, salt spilled in the shape of letters.

And me, well, I began to hate myself. It was, of course, all my fault. If Anna had never filed that lawsuit, if she hadn't been at the courthouse signing papers with her attorney, she never would have been at that particular intersection at that particular moment. She would be here, and I would be the one coming back to haunt her.

For a long time, I was sick. The transplant nearly failed, and then, inexplicably, I began the long steep climb upward. It has been eight years since my last relapse, something not even Dr. Chance can understand. He thinks it is a combination of the ATRA and the arsenic therapy --- some contributing delayed effect --- but I know better. It is that someone had to go, and Anna took my place.

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones one, if only so that I would not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that my father worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to come home to a house that felt too big for us.

Then one morning, my mother realized that we had eaten everything in the house, down to the last shrunken raisin and graham cracker crumb, and she went to the grocery store. My father paid a bill or two. I sat down to watch TV and watched an old I Love Lucy and started to laugh.

Immediately, I felt like I had defiled a shrine. I clapped my hand over my mouth, embarrassed. It was Jesse, sitting beside me on the couch, who said, "She would have thought it was funny, too."

See, as much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memory that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.

I wonder how much she keeps tabs on us. If she knows that for a long time, we were close to Campbell and Julia, even went to their wedding. If she understands that the reason we don't see them anymore is because it just plain hurt too much, because even when we didn't talk about Anna, she lingered in the spaces between the words, like the smell of something burning.

I wonder if she was at Jesse's graduation from the police academy, if she knows that he won a citation from the mayor last year for his role in a drug bust. I wonder if she knew that Daddy fell deep into a bottle after she left, and had to claw his way out. I wonder if she knows that, now, I teach children how to dance. That every time I see two little girls at the barre, sinking into pliés, I think of us.

She still takes me by surprise. Like nearly a year after her death, when my mother came home with a roll of film she'd just developed of my high school graduation. We sat down at the kitchen table together, shoulder to shoulder, trying not to mention as we looked at all our double-wide grins that there was someone missing from the photo.

And then, as if we'd conjured her, the last picture was of Anna. It had been that long since we'd used the camera, plain and simple. She was on a beach towel, holding out one hand toward the photographer, trying to get whoever it was to stop taking her picture.

My mother and I sat at the kitchen table staring at Anna until the sun set, until we had memorized everything from the color of her ponytail holder to the pattern of fringe on her bikini. Until we couldn't be sure we were seeing her clearly anymore.

My mother let me have that picture of Anna. But I didn't frame it; I put it into an envelope and sealed it and stuffed it far back into a corner drawer of a filing cabinet. It's there, just in case one of these days I start to lose her.

There might be a morning when I wake up and her face isn't the first thing I see. Or a lazy August afternoon when I can't quite recall anymore where the freckles were on her right shoulder. Maybe one of these days, I will not be able to listen to the sound of snow falling and hear her footsteps.

When I start to feel this way I go into the bathroom and I lift up my shirt and touch the white lines of my scar. I remember how, at first, I thought the stitches seemed to spell out her name. I think about her kidney working inside me and her blood running through my veins. I take her with me, wherever I go. .

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Anna wins lawsuit, Kate dies, Jesse goes to art school, Sarah becomes a lawyer again, Brian takes an early pension and counsells inner-city youths but they go to Montanna every year on Kate's birthday.

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No. In the end, Kate gets her much needed kidney from Anna, but Anna dies instead. But not because of kidney surgery, instead of a car crash where she becomes brain-dead.

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Kate is 16 years old. BUt in some parts they go back in time when she's 8, and a newborn and all.

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Yes. Because she is riding away in a car gets in an accident and her and her sister dies.

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she was 13 or maybe 14

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What is the full contraction of keeper?

This can be time keeper or zoo keeper


What does a keeper of a park called?

a park keeper


Who is the Antagonist of My Sister's Keeper a novel?

i don't think there is an antagonist b cuz no1s really doing anything wrong. Anna just doesn't want 2 give up a kidney, sara just doesn't want to give up kate, & kate just doesn't want 2 suffer anymore.


How do you spell record keeper?

It is written as record-keeper. However the spelling is correct.


Who Prologue my sisters keeper?

Who wrote the prologue in My Sisters Keeper? That's a hard question. At first you think its Anna, obviously. But once you finish the book (Please stop here if you don't want the ending spoiled!!!) and re-read it, it's a harder question to answer... Certainly you can look at it from both Kate and Anna's perspective, which is what I will do, and you can answer the question yourself. As Kate is the speaker in the epilogue it would make sense for her to also be the speaker at the beginning. But as the book is about Anna and her struggles it would make just as much sense to have her as the speaker. The quote "I am 3 years old and I'm trying to kill my sister ...She didn't stand a chance against me of course, but it still didn't work." This is could be seen coming from either Kate or Anna. Kate was a sick child, and wouldn't have had the strength to fight off her sister if she did try to kill her. But then looking at it from Kate's perspective, Anna would have been 1 or less at the time, so neither sister would have had the strength to survive. "As we got older, I didn't seem to exist except in relation to her." This is another quote that gives no help in identifying the speaker. Kate couldn't live without her sister there to donate blood and other body parts, but then again, Anna wouldn't exist if it weren't for her sister and her illness. Neither could exist unless the other was there. The final paragraph "In the end though, I did not kill my sister. She did it all on her own. Or at least this is what I tell myself." means two very different things coming from each of the sisters. Kate: If she were to be the speaker then her final lines 'She did it all on her own. At least this is what I tell myself' are contradicting what she says in the epilogue. "And me, well, I began to hate myself. It was, of course, all my fault. If Anna had never filed that lawsuit, if she hadn't been at the courthouse signing papers with her attorney, she never would have been at that particular intersection at that particular moment. She would be here, and I would be the one coming back to haunt her." She blames her self for Anna's death, so why does she try and blame Anna in the beginning? Why would she begin to hate herself even though she told herself it was Anna's fault she died? This contradiction can be attributed to the fact that she doesn't want to suffer and passing the blame on to someone else is the easiest thing to do., but why tell us that it was her sister's fault, when in the end she admitted it was her mistake. Anna: She could not mean kill her sister in a physical sense; more rather, kill her emotionally. Anna's death destroyed her family, and would have killed a part of her sister. 'She did it all on her own' we know that Kate asked Anna not to donate her kidney; so in essence, Kate was the one who started to events that led to Anna's death. Anna is not blaming her sister for her death, but rather putting the blame on her sister for the loss and pain she suffered. As you can see, the answer to the question 'Who wrote the prologue in My Sisters Keeper' is not easy. I feel the answer changes for every person. It isn't clear cut, it is shrouded and shades of grey and so it is your own opinion and interpretation that holds the answer. even after all that has been said i think it was kate cause she is still alive

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Who played Kate in your sisters keeper?

Sofia Vassilieva as Kate Fitzgerald .


Who is the girl dying of cancer in my sisters keeper?

kate


Who is the protagonist in the novel your sisters keeper?

The protagonist in the novel "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult is Anna Fitzgerald. She is a young girl who was conceived to be a donor match for her older sister Kate, who is battling leukemia. The story revolves around Anna's decision to sue her parents for medical emancipation.


What Kind of cancer is in your sisters keeper?

Kate has APL-Leukaemia


Who dies in your sisters keeper and how?

Taylor from cancer and kate from stop breathing


Who play Julia in your sisters keeper?

Sofia Vassilieva is playing Kate in My Sister's Keeper.


What disease does Kate have in your Sisters Keeper?

she has leukemia but her disease is that she lost function of her kidneys.


How does your sisters keeper the book end?

In the book "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult, the ending reveals a surprising twist where one of the main characters makes a selfless decision that changes the course of the story. Without giving away too much, the ending is emotional and thought-provoking, leaving readers with a lot to contemplate.


How many kidney cancers are there?

no one knows.but on my sisters keeper,kate has lost control of her kidneys


Does Anna die in your sisters keeper?

unlike the movie Anna does die...giving kate her kidney )-:


Does kate from My sisters keeper ever get a boyfriend in the book?

Yes, her boyfrien is Taylor who also has cancer but he dies


Who is Sara in the book your sisters keeper?

She's the mom of Kate, Anna, and Jesse and she's Brian's wife.