Hektoen International

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  • Father’s Day on the 12th floor

    Maggie SchwarzNew York City, New York, USA “Are you guys watching basketball? Would anyone mind if I brought my dad in here to watch tennis at 3:30?” It is a rainy Father’s Day in the visitor’s lounge on the twelfth floor of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The few boys occupying the lounge tell me it…