23-year-old Ann is a traditional working class woman who is happily married to her husband Don and who has given birth to two lovely daughters Patsy and Penny. Ann     1    her work with her colleague Laurie because they can     2    to each other while cleaning the buildings their work requires them to. One     3    thing about Ann is that she listens to recordings of foreign languages—Spanish, French and even Chinese     4    driving and even working. In Laurie's eyes, Ann is not normal, but Ann     5    that nobody is normal; everyone is different in     6    ways. Laurie's specific problem is not an unusual one: the     7    between a strong appetite for food and an equally strong     8    to keep in shape by dieting. She envies Ann who     9    slim while seeming to eat as much as she likes.
    In fact, Ann's character is     10    . One morning,     11    after Don had taken the kids to school Ann     12    just as she was about to go to work. She was     13    by her divorced mother, who stays alongside her. She rushed her to     14    .
    The doctor discovered that there are tumors (肿瘤) in both her ovaries (卵巢).     15    can be done about the cancer. Ann     16    from the doctor that she has only two or three months to     17    .
    Shaken     18    Ann was by this news, she decided not to tell her morn and husband, and to go on living as if nothing has happened.     19    in a cafe, Ann began to write down all the things she     20    to do before her death:
    1. Tell my daughters several times a day that I love them;
    2. Find Don a new wife who the girls like;
    3. Record Birthday Messages for the girls every year until they are 18;
    4. Go to Whale Bay Beach together and have a big picnic;
    5. Smoke and drink as much as I want;
    6. Say just what I'm thinking;
    7. Go and see Dad in jail.
    ...