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Cancer Doesn't Change Anything

October 11, 2009
By WriterWithWings DIAMOND, Seneca, South Carolina
WriterWithWings DIAMOND, Seneca, South Carolina
61 articles 1 photo 45 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.”
"Love is a drug. a drug that distorts reality, and thats the point of it. No body would fall in love with someone who they really saw."
"Words and hea


Cancer. Yeah, I said the word. Don’t freak. It seems whenever you say that word, everyone around you starts tip toeing around you. I don’t want your sympathy. I don’t want anyone’s. Sympathy won’t solve anything. It won’t make things easier. Just let me continue my life. Let me hang out with my friends, fail a test if I deserved to fail, have a fever without anyone rushing me to the hospital. Let me live my life. I will survive, I will. If you want to help then you can act normally around me. But please, I don’t want sympathy. I will survive. I know I will. Please quit telling me I will. So now you know I have cancer, don’t let it change anything.


The author's comments:
I got this idea from an episode of Brothers and Sisters. Please leave a comment!

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tor10jax GOLD said...
on Jun. 6 2010 at 8:18 pm
tor10jax GOLD, Livingston, New Jersey
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I hope I helped :)

on Jun. 6 2010 at 11:10 am
WriterWithWings DIAMOND, Seneca, South Carolina
61 articles 1 photo 45 comments

Favorite Quote:
“Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.”
"Love is a drug. a drug that distorts reality, and thats the point of it. No body would fall in love with someone who they really saw."
"Words and hea

Thanks... thank you for the pieces of advice

tor10jax GOLD said...
on Jan. 13 2010 at 10:25 am
tor10jax GOLD, Livingston, New Jersey
10 articles 0 photos 143 comments
I like it. The first and last lines are good but I feel like you could lead into the last line better. Throughout the article you made it seem like the reader already knew about the naarator's cancer. Maybe you could say "Oh, you didn't know? Yeah, I have cancer. Don't let it change anything."