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[quote=Anonymous]OP, maybe this story will help you. My mother was diagnosed with an incredibly rare illness at 25. So rare that people didn't really know how it would play out. So rare that for months they believed she had a certain kind of cancer just because there wasn't a standardized way to test for what she did end up having -- which wasn't cancer, but which also, again, was life-limiting and could become incredibly dangerous. At the time, she was also five months pregnant (and promptly miscarried). This was in 1979. My mother went on to have two more children and four grandchildren. She died of her disease -- at 78. In the hospital in 1979, she told her doctor she was terrified that she could die. He told her to go live her life, to live each day. "You could be hit by a bus tomorrow. You absolutely never know." The point being, fate is fate and the future is unpredictable - for all of us. So try to live in the now. [/quote]
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