...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.

Ruth Dugdall
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When you are the only person in the world who has ever had cancer, you learn to accept it. You learn to accept your fate and accept that your life will be different than other people’s lives. There is so much beyond the cancer cells in your body, but you can’t see them.

Source: The Sacrificial Man

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