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At age twenty-three, Debbie Gisonni had everything. She was on her way to becoming one of the top paid and youngest executives in Silicon Valley. She had found true love…and she could make a mean cannoli! Then in 1984, her mother Vita developed a brain tumor that left her permanently disabled. A few years later, her younger sister suddenly committed suicide. Within months her father was diagnosed with bone cancer and breast cancer struck her favorite aunt. Between 1990 and 1994, all of them died.
Vita’s Will: Real Life Lessons About Life, Death & Moving On is a chronicle of Gisonni’s unimaginable experiences. One day she was on the corporate fast track; the next she left it all so that she could stop and smell the red sauce.
Called Tuesday’s With Morrie meets Chicken Soup for the Soul®, Vita’s Will brings humor and sorrow into the horrors of hospitals, the lost dreams of her parents, and the shock of her sister’s suicide. Through these four deaths, Gisonni learns to squeeze the sweetest wine from a bunch of sour grapes without wallowing in self-pity. Her practical wisdom and sage advice works for any traumatic situation. You’ll be moved to tears and laughter by her forty-four inspirational real-life lessons and her nightly chats with God.
Ten percent of the author’s proceeds from this book will be donated to the following institutions: Y-me National Breast Cancer Organization, National Brain Tumor Foundation, International Myeloma Foundation and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
From the Publisher
High tech exec finds humility, humor, and heart when four family members die in four years.
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