![]() ![]() ![]() John Denver music is played throughout the movie. She and Sam meet at a ramshackle hut where you hear banjos and guitars being played at a kind of hippie gathering. She actually became pregnant by her husband, but was already separated from him when she met and fell in love with Sam. The only surefire way of a cure is to amputate her leg, but Kate (I'll use the names from the movie from this point on) refuses to have the surgery. It was at first misdiagnosed as bursitis, but was actually a rare form of cancer called osteosarcoma.a bone cancer. ![]() Shortly after giving birth to her daughter, she had painful knee problems. She died at the age of twenty, leaving behind a two year old daughter. ![]() "Lyn" Helton, you can see old photos and newspaper articles about her. For those who never saw it, it's based on an actual real story. I still love this movie the same as ever, though. It's amazing how my views on the main character of Kate Hayden have changed over the decades, now that I have the life experience and maturity I lacked as a child. I actually just acquired the movie on DVD a couple of weeks ago, but it can also be seen on YouTube. I even taped the audio using one of those old Panasonic portable tape records just so I could re-listen to the audio, again and again. The TV movie made a huge impression on me back in the early 70's when I was a child. I've actually never read this book, but acquired a rare used paperback copy several years ago. ![]()
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