Mom writes book to help kids cope with cancer diagnosis

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Rebecca Drobis/Special to The Commercial Appeal

By Bartholomew Sullivan (Contact), Memphis Commercial Appeal, Saturday, April 4, 2009

WASHINGTON -- Selene Benitone, in a yellow "Survivor" T-shirt, sat on a couch in her Capitol Hill row house recently to describe her "really bad" cancer diagnosis and what she has done to help her children accept it...

 Selene Benitone, with two of her children Banks, 6, and Ella, 5, says of her book: "It really, truly takes the fear out of the unknown and supplements it with a family being open and communicating together."

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