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No one tells you about this part in a handy pamphlet
by Angela ThomasI thought that maybe if I could just press the fast-forward button on God's controller for my life, I could skip over tommorow to better days. Like a badly planned blockbuster motion picture, I know what's coming next. The doctor will ask me to sit down and in her most patient and calm voice she'll use the six letter word that no one ever wants to hear. I'll let my hands fall and ask what I'm supposed to do. Pamphlets, the counselors' numbers and the treatment don't make me fell any better as my trembling fingers do what they have to - call my three jobs, my mother, and my better senses, to tell them the news. On the phone with my mother, I would always tell her, "there's good news, and bad news. The good news is, I'm gonna be fine. The bad news is, it's cancer." 05/17/2004 Posted on 05/17/2004
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