Kat Cheng opened the notes app on her phone and tried to summon the right words to say. The 36-year-old photographer was writing an anonymous note to an unknown reader — a modern-day message in a bottle. Cheng, who completed her chemo treatment for breast cancer six months before the pandemic struck, struggled to strike the right tone. Kat Cheng’s letter to chemo patients was among 13 written through a program set up by a UCLA oncology center. AdvertisementEach letter includes a song recommendation (and in one case, a Mary Oliver poem) to listen to during chemotherapy.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 16, 2021 12:56 UTC