Florida camp turns mom into mermaid after bout with cancer
by Amy Bizzarri, Chicago Tribune
Dec 24, 2018
4 minutes
Few positives sprout from a bout with breast cancer. The first time I lay prone at the center of the "Star Wars"-like machine that would blast me with radiation, I made a conscious decision to banish fear from my brain and focus on my travel bucket list, which had come to a standstill in the rush of work, raising children as a single mom and, well, life.
No. 1 on my list was a visit to Weeki Wachee Springs State Park.
My father had waxed nostalgic about this magical spring, an hour's drive north of Tampa, Fla., which he visited on a family road trip from Chicago to Florida in the '50s. Named
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