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Kids’ Toys and Fortune Cookies Wield Fear, Not Fun, When Your Child Is Dying

PERSONAL ESSAY

We’re straddling the third rail as my son awaits a bone marrow transplant that may or may not save his life. It’s led to an unhinged invasion of magical thinking.

Allison Quinn
Allison Quinn 

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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Courtesy Allison Quinn
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