It’s now six months since I was diagnosed with cancer. That was a terrible start to the year. The surgeon informed me that, at my stage of the disease, survival rates are low. ‘But don’t give up hope,’ he added, having just made it sound hopeless. One thing, however, prevented me from becoming miserable: the fact that it didn’t make sense.
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