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    A Blessing and a Curse

    Mar 05, 2018 2 minutes
    LANGDON HAMMER

    IT USED TO BE THAT no one talked about cancer. These days we talk about it a lot, and our metaphors are military. The disease is something we battle or fight. Those verbs ennoble and empower us. They disguise the helplessness cancer imposes and the fact that the enemy is inside

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