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anneboleyn

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Wed Jun-03-09 02:54 AM
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42. Being diagnosed with an incredibly rare cancer as a young professional

This changed my life utterly and I had to give up everything I had dreamed of and hoped for as a young graduate student. Devastating, painful -- soul-crushing.

I have experienced a lot of trauma in my life (father abandoning the family when I was young, losing my grandmother who took care of me) but hearing the word "cancer" as the doctor looks over your chart, frantically flipping pages, is an experience that shakes one's world to its very roots.

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