“I tried not to talk about it all the time,” Anne said in a deposition some years later. “I knew how I was being received by my husband. I stood for emotionalism; I was the hysterical mother. With Dr. Truman, I’d try to pick my moments. He was always very patient. I’d tell him: ‘If I stand on my front porch, I can see all these houses where children with leukemia live.’ His theory was that because more children were surviving, that’s the reason I was seeing more leukemia.”

Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action, loc. 85