cancer

Warning signs

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A creaking body is like the creaking of land before an earthquake

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Cancer, not a sentence but

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Exclamation Mark, Comma, Colon, Ellipses, Quote Marks and Full Stop

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No future

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Dead children and dead young animals, loss of their potential so sad

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Tick tock

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Ask not for whom the clock ticks as it counts down the time. It ticks for you.

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Gotta laugh

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“I’ve been dying to tell you” is how to announce you have got cancer

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Or that cancer patients can’t get hit by bus

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Sadly there’s no rule says you get just one fatal disease in lifetime

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Punctured

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Cancer patients spend their lives having sharp needles poked into their arms

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The Elgin, er…

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I forget names of common objects – have I lost my small round glass things?

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Friends, but not really friends

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Cancer patients are like a giant world-wide group of internet friends

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Past imperfect

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What poisons from the past have warped your body and twisted your mind?

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