Opinion: ‘Cluster’ on paper, rage in a father’s heart

It began with a neighbor dying, then an uncle who lived down the street, then all the livestock on one Maryland farm fell dead, one cow after another.
And then it hit closer to home — a wife fell terminally ill and a young daughter was gone.
The pattern became familiar, the stories swapped between neighbors sounding more and more alike: cancer, tumors, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, leukemia.

By: Petula Dvorak, Syndicated columnist