Feeling a little contemplative today.....sadly my aunt is in the very last stages of terminal cancer and we are awaiting news....my mother has spent the night with her (it's her younger sister)......and her daughter, my 15 year old cousin, is also by her bedside.....my aunt is a single mother. She has battled it off and on with enormous courage for 8 years but this really is almost the end. I wouldn't usually share something this personal but it's all I can think about right today.....life just doesn't seem fair sometimes.....
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Feeling a little contemplative today.....sadly my aunt is in the very last stages of terminal cancer and we are awaiting news....my mother has spent the night with her (it's her younger sister)......and her daughter, my 15 year old cousin, is also by her bedside.....my aunt is a single mother. She has battled it off and on with enormous courage for 8 years but this really is almost the end. I wouldn't usually share something this personal but it's all I can think about right today.....life just doesn't seem fair sometimes..... 
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