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What they don't tell you as a kid is that most people go through this

I remember as a kid thinking cancer was some rare thing, or some thing that only really old people or smokers got

but I swear, my dad got it and most of my friends have a parent who got it too.

pretty sure if you end up having parents that make it into their 70's with no major health issues you're actually extremely lucky and not the norm.

this is actually exactly where I was at

I thought it was some horrible lottery-luck-level deal where its like one in a billion chance or something

I'm pretty blown away the past week to be hearing all of this. Its actually comforting in a weird wa y