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Abstract: In order to analyze Katie Holbrook's life, one must draw, and often muddle, through years of simplicity, of youth, to those of heartbreak and disappointment. Her life as a young child was almost pristine, loving parents, close relationship with her two sisters and eleven cousins, but there is more than meets the eye, because few people could possibly fathom her hardships, and this paper analyzes her journey as a person, from battling thyroid cancer at 13, twelve neurosurgeries and weeks totaling months in hospitals, 4.5 years of depression and a constant series of disappointments, until now, a moody but generally well-adjusted person. The story draws through her ancestry, from her mother’s parents’ marriage at 18 with very little money to her father’s father building his house on his own to his death by bone marrow cancer when she was 5. Her story also draws towards the present, having been exposed to many cultures by friends of different ethnicities and an underlying feeling of blandness.

Brainstorming:
-thyroid diagram
-cultural influences: Indian, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Ukrainian.
-middle child traits
-depression studies
-neurological diagrams
-medical research