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Always look on the bright side
To read about people’s experiences with cancer, it seems as if no-one just ‘has’ the disease-they’re constantly ‘fighting’ or ‘battling’ it. If the ‘war’ here is meant as the one between medical science and its mysterious, capricious enemy, then the … Continue reading
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