“NEVER GIVE POWER TO ILLNESS” Tell us about your book “My Four Season” ? Actually the book unfolds from my personal journal, which I started writing as a kid documenting memories, feelings, experiences, etc. Once an adult, and given a sudden and unexpected breast cancer diagnosis, I decided to transform the diary into a structured narration I could potentially share with family, friends and anyone in search for a testimony with which they could identify and draw learning for their own benefit. For instance in the book I depict the importance of the “coincidences” or “signs” life flashes right in front our eyes, but sometimes we ignore; like the time when someone gave me a business card of a surgeon, to which I paid zero attention to and misplaced it in some drawer, and who more than a year later, ended up being the one person who resolved my reconstruction ordeal. What is the meaning behind your book title? Photographed by IMANI OGDEN MSM hero’s DANILA SIGAL 60 MIAMI SHOOT MAGAZINE HERO’S The title derives from the number 4, which has been present in my life a lot! We are four sisters, four very close friends, and my family nucleus also consists of my two kids, my husband, and myself. I basically associated each season with the personality of the people in my life, with the understanding that all seasons are necessary, they each bring their unique contribution to our existence, and complement each other. Additionally, in line with what I told you earlier about my dad exposing me to all the classical masterpieces, I love Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, so this music accompanied me as inspiration while I wrote the book. Why did you decide to write the memoir? Well, when suddenly we are faced with a diagnosis of a death sentence,