'I wanted to buy her time': A mother looks back on her daughter's terminal cancer

Sarah Wildman's daughter Orli died at age 14. "She would sometimes ask me, 'What do you think I did to deserve this?' And of course, that's not an answerable question," Wildman says.

Feb 3, 2025 - 21:42
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'I wanted to buy her time': A mother looks back on her daughter's terminal cancer
Sarah Wildman and Orli, photographed in early summer 2021. Orli was finishing a second round of chemotherapy after her liver cancer had metastasized when she was asked to participate in a project chronicling the beauty of baldness.

Sarah Wildman's daughter Orli died at age 14. "She would sometimes ask me, 'What do you think I did to deserve this?' And of course, that's not an answerable question," Wildman says.

(Image credit: Abby Greenawalt)