Great article. It nailed one of the key weird things about cancer. You don’t get closure. Ever. It’s been 40 years since mine, and sure, it’s “gone”. It’ll never be GONE without the quote marks. There is a doubt that creeps in, over and above the natural baseline doubt about the permanency of life. That uncertainty hits you square in the face every day, a direct result of the way cancer plays out, even cancer in the distant past. The effect is there is a different kind of stress on cancer people. We just react to the way things go in life differently than most people who go about their day. Some of us deal with it gracefully, some don’t deal, some deal ok, but ALL of us have it. I’ll just leave it here and not go too far off the deep end about this other than to say it’s real and the article resonated with me because of it.
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