Refuge Epilogue by Terry Tempest Williams

In this excerpt our author finds out that her family has been subject to cancer due to the nuclear bomb testing that has been occurring in the area. She and her father were reminiscing one day about her late mother when she recalls a dream she had been having about a flash of light. Turns out her dream was not actually a dream. That event happened when she was very little. Her family drove past a very intense bomb. Because of that bomb her mother and many of her other family members suffered from breast cancer. After finding out this information she participates in a protest and becomes arrested for civil disobedience on military lands. What is so inspiring about this passage is the fact that the author made a stand for what she believed was right. She made a stand to honor the women that had died from such a horrible disease. She finds peace in being left in the middle of a dessert and when everyone expected her to break down she became stronger.