If this hasn’t happened to you yet, I’m pretty sure it will. Someone finds out you or your loved one has cancer and begins to tell you a story about a relative or friend of theirs who had a similar cancer. I’m sure it’s an attempt to identify with what you’re going through, but unfortunately, as the story unfolds, it’s not what you really want to hear. People used to come up and tell me gruesome stories about their neighbor who had the same kind of cancer I did and just “wasted away” or their grandmother who was “racked with pain.” I hated hearing these stories, but at first I tried to be
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