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Zack Tanner
ztanner@post-gazette.com

 

November 4, 2019

Shadows fall against the face of Oliver Brown, 7, as he plays hide-and-seek with his siblings, Wednesday, April 3, 2019, at their family farm straddling Saltlick and Bullskin. Oliver “does not like change,” his mother Mary Beth explains, which makes it even harder to explain what’s happening when she is gone for days at a time for cancer treatment. “It’s hard for them to understand what ‘stage four’ means,” she says.