C(an't)cer
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Rae Morgan. Seventeen. Diagnosed at ten with the fate of death at an early age. Breast Cancer. My story ends like any other cancer story. Sad. Depressing. But death has something I call a ripple effect of others. You're the rock and once you drop into the water, you send waves of depression to everyone that you've ever loved. But you can't stop your fate. So once you learn to accept it, you go on with you life and try to make the best of it. But I can't just make the best of it. I'm going to live out the final years of my life in the most halcyon way possible. So with my best friend, Joshua Evans, we make one year, seem like a lifetime.
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