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Louise V
11.29.11
Letter ID: 6295 Dear Cancer,
I'm 78 years old. I have never been ill with anything !!! But now I was diagnosed with cancer in my soft tissue of my knee. " Something is going to get you !!! But NO !!! because I'm being treated with the Varian medical systems. It's interesting how the system works - No Blood No Gore!!!! Feel good all the time !!! Soooo Dear cancer I really don't need you !!!
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Bree F
11.28.11
Letter ID: 6294 Dear Cancer,
You don't deserve a DEAR, at the start of this letter. You are not human, you are not anything but cells that destroy bodies, hearts, lives and families. You are this thing that won't leave my family alone. I need my Dad, just like I needed my Grandfather and my Grandmother. Please....I think you have taken enough. 30 of my almost 35 years have been too inundated with you and your havoc. Be gone, be done....be cured.
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PAUL P
11.20.11
Letter ID: 6293 Dear Cancer,
ITS BEEN 11 YEARS NOW, EVEN THO THE DOCTORS SAID I WAS CONCIDERED CURED FROM LUNG CANCER.. I KNOW YOUR LURKING SOMEWHERE IN MY BODY JUST WAITING TO STRIKE AGAIN. YOU ARE WICKED, YOU TAKE AWAY THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THOSE THAT SURVIVE. YOU HURT PEOPLE. YOU KILL PEOPLE.. YOU MAKE PEOPLE SUFFER AND IN THE END YOU TAKE THEIR LIFE..
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Courtney L
11.20.11
Letter ID: 6292 Dear Cancer,
You can't have my best friend. She is the most wonderful, kind person I have ever met and she will win this fight.
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future writer, Michael Albano A
11.12.11
Letter ID: 6291 Dear Cancer,
to thy spark which has been born with posibilities and chances to what that can desire. To that opportunity to choices of their rhyme and reason has been touch by everyone who seen them. Being part of lives can change their path of which they had chosen. If not existed why are born, why do they die? Love is a strong emotion that keeps us whole. If ripped from our lives we change. Fate is not fair ,but it is the truth. Up and down. Come in and go. Rhyme and Reason. You have none. Why?
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Anonymous
11.12.11
Letter ID: 6290 Dear Cancer,
I do want to rid my body of you but didn't realize the blessings you have brought. I have received an out pouring of love from my family and friends I have never experienced before.
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Debra W
11.10.11
Letter ID: 6288 Dear Cancer,
We have recently become acquainted. First by taking my uncle and my best friend's mother on the same day and now by setting up camp in my mother's body. I think you've wreaked just about enough havoc with my loved ones this past year. If you think you're going to get away with this without a fight, you are seriously mistaken. Let me warn you, despite her outward appearance, my mom is a feisty little lady. She is a woman of faith, integrity, spiritual strength, and does not have room for you in her life anymore. She still has much work to do in this world and you are an unwanted speed bump. Her family will stand beside her and fight you with every tool we can get our hands on. Consider this letter as your immediate eviction notice and get out now!
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Susan P
11.08.11
Letter ID: 6287 Dear Cancer,
Why are you so evil? No one has ever given you an invitation into their lives. Hopefully someday, through research, you will be destroyed!! You receive no GLORY for what you have done to people lives.
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Rose C
11.08.11
Letter ID: 6286 Dear Cancer,
I don't know where you came from? I don't know why you continue to take the lives of dear ones from us? I wish you didn't exist! One day someone will find a cure and rid you once and for all! Until that day comes, I beg you to stay away!
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Steve C
11.07.11
Letter ID: 6285 Dear Cancer,
You took my father from me. You have messed with my mother more than once. I'm coming after you. I'll help raise money. I'll raise awareness. Whatever I have to do. Don't get comfortable...
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Terri A
11.07.11
Letter ID: 6284 Dear Cancer,
You took my brother Jim long before his time. I pray daily for a cure. You show no mercy on those you take. Jim fought you long and hard for 9 years. He is gone to a much better place where you can no longer attack him. I'm hoping he is looking down and guiding the researchers to beat you once and for all. You will not win this battle. I still love and miss you Jim. Help us to keep fighting cancer so that soon we will have to read about cancer in history books.
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Michael B
11.07.11
Letter ID: 6283 Dear Cancer,
Unfortunately my family and I know you too well. There have been numerous illnesses and dealths in my family have had to endour. None more tragic to my than my mother. As an uneducated single mother in the workforce, and constantly working two or more jobs, she had no benefits or time to be concerned about her own health. A smile from one of children was medicine enough for her. This lead to lon bouts with sickness, and finally a diagnosis. "Maybe 6 months, its terminal" is what the doctor said. She had ultimately worked and smoked herself to death. I was 17, and my oldest sister became legal guardian for us all. The thing is Cancer, I've already come to terms with you and your earth shattering realisms. The sadness and hurt you bring lasts forever. But yet, so does "who I am, and where I am going". Because what my mother means to me and who she raised us all to be. I don't use the word HATE very often, but you Cancer...I HATE YOU!
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Becky G
11.06.11
Letter ID: 6282 Dear Cancer,
I WIN.
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Donella B
11.05.11
Letter ID: 6281 Dear Cancer,
how long have I wanted to write you a letter? How can I have so much to say to an inanimate object? I do. I wish that I had never met you, wish your name was never allowed to roll around in my mouth. You have taken from me, but still, want more. My mom is sick, and its you that I have to blame for this. I hate you so much for being silent and malicious. I hate you for being greedy. For taking and living where you aren't wanted. Mom, I love you so much. I am so sad that you are sick again. I am sad, sick and scared for you. I hate that you have cancer and there is not one thing I can do to make you physically better. Chicken soup is so not going to fix this. I remember when I was a kid and I was sick, all I wanted was my mommy to make it better. And, mom, you did. About 7-8 years ago, my mom started feeling inconsistently bad. She went to the doctors, time and time again. For stomach pain, mostly. The doctors diagnosed her with diverticulitis. That's ok. That sucks, but that is ok. We can change your diet, you will be ok. But why doesn't the change in your diet change the way you feel? More tests, more poking more prodding, more peeing in cups, more contrast, more dye, more fasting, more cat scans, more MRI's and x- rays. More. More. More. Cancer, you always wanted more, even from the very beginning. By this time I started whispering the C word.... My mom's dad= remember him? You took him too... I thought it wouldn't happen, it couldn't happen... you couldn't have been hiding there all along. Testing and months passed, misdiagnosis's and sleepless nights speckled in doubt stacked up. Fast forward about a year... I got the call that changed my life. I remember where I was. I remember who was with me. The weather, the smell in the air, the feeling of the undead rest coming to life in the pit of my stomach. My dad called. My mom had cancer. Her first surgery, they wanted to remove the mass, and go from there. The surgery should have been about 4 hours. After about an hour and a half in the waiting room, we saw the doctor. He pulled my dad and I out of the main room, into the hallway. I am not sure, but I think everything around me stopped. I didn't hear everything that he said. ....Too.Much.Cancer....Nothing.To.Do.....More.Than.Ever.Seen.....In.Recovery... Hospice. My dad... my dad crying, and me- I don't know what happened to me. I honestly don't remember anything until I saw my mom in recovery. For some reason, I remember thinking, she will know what is going on. They will have told her. She will know. Dad still crying. Mom doesn't have her glasses on. That's weird. Her eyes are so big, she knows, she knows, she knows what the doctor told me and dad in the hall. She looks at dad. Dad's crying. She looks at me. She says, "Am I going to die?" No I say, no you aren't. You are going to fight. And she did. Her recovery from the surgery was hard, and we found out that she was going to have to have a second one, as soon as she was able. Since my moms cancer is very rare, surgery and removal were the only options. The doctor who did my mom's second surgery saved her life. He ended up removing all the cancer he could see, and any infected organs/intestine. He rerouted what was left of her intestine and made it all work, with restrictions, again. Again, her recovery was very hard, but its been about and a half years now. About 4 months ago, we found out that she was sick again... Again, I got the call I had been dreading. Melting into the cold, grey, concrete floor I heard, "the doctors didn't like what they saw". Since then its been more. Again, more. More tests, more contrast, x-rays, MRI's, cat scans. More fasting, more throwing up, more not sleeping, more weakness.... more, more, more, more. Now we are waiting the weekend out. She's got a doctor's appointment Monday. Its likely that they will admit her. Cancer, I hate you more than you can ever know. Even though you don't reside in my physical body, you reside in my soul...
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alejandra m
11.04.11
Letter ID: 6280 Dear Cancer,
Its been though dealing with you. My grandma is not the same ever sence we found out she has Breast cancer. But we've grown closer and we have a good feeling one Day all this is going to be over and you wont be in our lives any more I hope that day come soon.
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Carmen S
11.01.11
Letter ID: 6278 Dear Cancer,
You thought you had me defeated but you were wrong. I won. I had the best medical team, family support and friends to help me win the battle. I thought I would die without my hair but guess what? I look BEAUTIFUL. I named my port Henry. Henry was with me for 8 months. We shared a wonderful relationship, but at the end of the day, Henry had to go! Since my final chemo, I have accomplished many things I thought I never would. I was fortunate enough to meet the granddaughter that was adopted at birth 23 years ago! I received my first college degree and am presently working on my second! I ran and completed a 13-mile half marathon with the daughter I almost lost to drugs! Though I lost my husband in those years, I found renewed inner strength and have started a new life. I am planning to relocate to Florida as these Jersey winters are a killer! I am excited about what the future may hold and know that I can accomplish anything I set my mind to. I have been Cancer free for 7 years and am grateful for all life has brought my way. So "Dear Cancer", you are now just a memory, and though at times I find myself thinking "what if", you are not the focus of my life. I will however say that because of you, I have learned how to be a better daughter, mother, friend. And, for that, I thank you. PS. I'm still rocking that semi-bald look and look fabulous!!!!!
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Meghan M
11.01.11
Letter ID: 6277 Dear Cancer,
You have affected way to many people. It is time that you just stop already and let everyone go on with their own lives. Although you have not hit my life as hard as others, i never want one of my loved ones to hear "You have Cancer." This weekend, I will be fighting against you and hopefully the $300 i have raised will get rid of you for good!
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Sandy P
10.29.11
Letter ID: 6276 Dear Cancer,
Thanks to you, my friend's dad will never see her prom, attend her high school graduation, or walk her down the aisle at her wedding. You have changed so many lives. Praying for the cure,
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Chantal S
10.20.11
Letter ID: 6275 Dear Cancer,
Leave us alone. We do not like you. We want you to be banished from this earth. You can not have the people I love they will fight you and win, so just accept your defeat!
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Anonymous
10.20.11
Letter ID: 6274 Dear Cancer,
You came as a shock, but already good things have happened because you were found. A son who never communicates has been communicating compassionately. Real friends have each been very supportive in their own ways. Still, you are scary. Wish biopsies didn't take so long to read!
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UberMom
10.19.11
Letter ID: 6273 Dear Cancer,
Since I was too young to comprehend the tragedy, you have taken friends and family from my life. You are powerful, but science is making great strides to help us live through this! I don't want to see another life lose its light because of you. I don't want to see another child lose a parent because of you. Find a cure and take away my tears!
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stacey a
10.18.11
Letter ID: 6272 Dear Cancer,
you really suck you took my father in law sister in law and now your threatening to take my best friend
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Heather V
10.17.11
Letter ID: 6270 Dear Cancer,
You reared your ugly head in my life when things should have been blissful. I had a new baby, my ONLY baby girl, my career was really taking off, and well? Life was finally going pretty well...then you showed up..in the form of mesothelioma.. You were caused by asbestos exposure I had when I was a kid. Cancer..you put my family through he'll, but you know what?? You don't have power over us...we've triumphed! I've lived far beyond what they thought imwould, and my life has gotten so much better. The people I know since your appearance are more real, or maybe I am..regardless...cancer..we will defeat you one day, and I hope and pray it is in my lifetime. Too many people die because of you, but one day, younwill be nothing more than a cold, a bump, a blip... My faith has given me power over you, and my family too... So...nice to know you, never want to see you again..
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Racheal w
10.17.11
Letter ID: 6269 Dear Cancer,
You have left your mark on my face but that will fade just as you did. Now stop attacking everyone espeically the children. Your mark is right in the middle of my face & i could hide away from the world but i won't you won't beat me even if you come back i will have you removed again. It won't be long and there will be a cure you will be a thing of the past when my children are grown.
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Shannon R
10.16.11
Letter ID: 6268 Dear Cancer,
about how for DECADES anyone who uttered the word "cancer" said it in a whisper and with such fear suggesting that even saying it out loud would somehow infect them as well. In my mind, you are not the "Voldemort" or He-who-must-not-be-named of the disease world. YOU are a nothing and a nobody....one who WILL be mentioned and yelled at and fought against with every ounce of what we, as people,have in us. Were you expecting tears and pleading? YOU are NOT worth my time and effort. We relay for the LOVE and CARE of others.....not because YOU are winning. SO CANCER...just give up your campaign and GO AWAY.
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Sarah D
10.15.11
Letter ID: 6267 Dear Cancer,
sometimes you roar in like a mighty thunderstorm--sometime you sneak in like an army of termites, destroying silently without being detected until it is too late--but always you devestate lives with your simple six-letter name-- and we all HATe you and someday ,soon, I hope, you will no longer have any strength left to damage any of us. Very truly yours, Sarah
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Sarah D
10.15.11
Letter ID: 6266 Dear Cancer,
sometimes you roar in like a mighty thunderstorm--sometime you sneak in like an army of termites, destroying silently without being detected until it is too late--but always you devestate lives with your simple six-letter name-- and we all HATe you and someday ,soon, I hope, you will no longer have any strength left to damage any of us. Very truly yours, Sarah
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Anonymous
10.12.11
Letter ID: 6265 Dear Cancer,
Leave us alone. We don't like you
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Anonymous
10.12.11
Letter ID: 6264 Dear Cancer,
This is for Miranda, Riley, and Lucy. Who fought so hard, and past so young..
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Anonymous
10.12.11
Letter ID: 6263 Dear Cancer,
My friend had a sister named Lucy. Lucy was diagnosed with a rare form of Lukiemia. Lucy fought for 4 years until she passed at age 12. Lucy was an amazing person, who I never got to meet. Cancer, she didn't care about you, even though you tried to get in her way. I love you Lucy
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Chas P
10.09.11
Letter ID: 6262 Dear Cancer,
I haven't met you. I don't know many people who have. Let's keep it that way.
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Donna W
10.08.11
Letter ID: 6261 Dear Cancer,
I dont like the word ”hate” but Cancer I hate you. I hate what you have done to my husbands body and what you have done to rip my family apart. What gives you the right to do this? You may have weakend my husbands body but you will never weaken his heart, it is bigger than you could ever imagine to be. Now you have been inside him long enough it is time for you to leave, GET OUT, LET HIM BE, GIVE HIM BACK TO HIS FAMILY AND ME! Return his strength, and his dignity.
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vicki j
10.07.11
Letter ID: 6260 Dear Cancer,
you have stolen several of my dear friends. I hate you for that. you are very evil and need to be stopped!! Vicki
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Anonymous
10.07.11
Letter ID: 6259 Dear Cancer,
You may have claimed my mother, first with melanoma and later, fatally with breast cancer, but I will not give you power in my life. I found you early in my melanoma one and a half years ago and I will beat you again, if need be.
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Diane D
10.06.11
Letter ID: 6258 Dear Cancer,
I am very familiar with you. Thanks to you I have lost my mother, uncle and both grandmothers. In addition I have seen the struggles of other family members as well as friends and co-workers bravely fighting you. I will not let you destroy the lives of other family members and friends and will continue to support groups to destroy you.
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Diane A
10.06.11
Letter ID: 6257 Dear Cancer,
Cancer has killed too many friends and family. I lost my father and my grandmother that way. One of my best friends has breast cancer now and I am so afraid we could lose her. We must find a cure!
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Jennifer G
10.06.11
Letter ID: 6256 Dear Cancer,
Yesterday you took away a wonderful friend of mine. She fought you, tooth and nail to the very end. She was a beautiful woman. A wonderful wife to her husband and mother to her two children. I hope that one day, a cure is found for you and everyone who fights you, will be able to win the war! You are sneak and a theif! You snuck into her body and then stole her from us, one day you will pay!!!!! God bless you Jennifer Moore!!
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Phyllis S
10.05.11
Letter ID: 6255 Dear Cancer,
We've existed together now for 20 years. We've endured together a mastectomy, tamoxaphen, femara, faslodex shots, bone scans, body scans, and my oncologist says he still has a whole bag full of tricks to keep you at bay. I'm so happy to be keep outfoxing you, but I'll never stop respecting your strength.
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Anonymous
10.05.11
Letter ID: 6254 Dear Cancer,
We are more aware than ever of the pollution in our world that makes it possible for you to invade our bodies. We will try to clean up our planet so you can go away forever!
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Bonnie R
10.05.11
Letter ID: 6253 Dear Cancer,
I banish you from our vocabulary, our planet, and may you NEVER return in any form to devastate and destroy. May our collective memories quickly be that of a disease conquered and a humanity in healing. Please take any relatives with you!
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Anonymous
10.05.11
Letter ID: 6252 Dear Cancer,
you have visited many of our family members but you have NOT won.....we continue to perserve and enjoy life....
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Robin L
10.05.11
Letter ID: 6251 Dear Cancer,
You may have reached your hand out touched some friends of mine, but through determination and pure fight they were able to push you back. They survived and for them and all the others who have done the same I will make strides to beat YOU!
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Susan J
10.01.11
Letter ID: 6250 Dear Cancer,
I hate how you are slowly and agonizingly taking taking my friend - bit by bit, day by day. I hate how you are making him a mere shell of his former self. I hate how you've stolen his beautiful smile, his strength and his joy. I hate how you are winning. I hate that you will win. I hate that you will not even appreciate the precious life you have taken but simply, and greedily, move on to someone else. I wish there was a cancer for cancer. I wish yesterday day was the day that no one would suffer your consequences. I wish you were no more.
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Anonymous
09.30.11
Letter ID: 6249 Dear Cancer,
You have changed my life forever.....I loathe you!!! You showed up in the fall of 94 without warning and changed the life of my 42 year old father!! He was a young man.....He was just expecting his first grandchild!! How could you be so cold??? You are an animal!! My dad beat you!! Tougher than you, because...unlike you, he is not a coward!! You are sneaky and ultimately cruel. You are a strong opponent and demand hard work and dedication....Although my dad through you out of his life...You harmed him forever!! He lost everything because of you...his wife, dignity, left eye, abilitly to walk!! You caused him permanent brain damage! Oct 2008, you came back....you took him quickly and caused us terrible pain.....You win!!! I am still shocked that you weren't satisfied with that!! You came to get my MOM TOO!!!! How shocking to find out hours after your father dies that your mom has cancer!!!!! She fought long and hard.....futile!!! You win again!! You have devastated so many in my family...My daughter, neice and nephew are without Grandparents!!! Not one day goes by that I don't cry and long for her....She was the greatest woman on planet..best mom and Gramma EVER!!! They were 58 years old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now, you are seriously taking my friends???????????? I won't let you have them!!!! We are gonna fight!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are going to get the fight of your life!! I sincerly hate you, I can't wait to the cure puts you away forever...... Alison
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Gretchen M
09.29.11
Letter ID: 6248 Dear Cancer,
Thank you for giving me yet one more birthday.. since you came I have looked at life differently.. it has been a year now and I am still here.. I pray each and every day for you that you will not inhabit another soul but if you do.. they see life as I have came to know it and that is without you in it!!! May God have mercy on your and all of us and bring to light a cure in the year of 2011!!! Not with hate do I send this.. but with determination to beat you at your game..and with God on my side leading the battle.. I will win!! AMEN!!!
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J G
09.27.11
Letter ID: 6247 Dear Cancer,
You take so many peoples lives. I cannot wait til they find a cure!!!
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Anonymous
09.27.11
Letter ID: 6246 Dear Cancer,
You took my Grandmother away in 2004. She will forever be in our hearts. I hope that one day you will be gone forever.
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Brian B
09.23.11
Letter ID: 6245 Dear Cancer,
For the second time now, you are trying to take my Dad, You failed before and you will fail again!
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DOUG H
09.23.11
Letter ID: 6244 Dear Cancer,
I hate what you have done in my life, You robbed me of my mother. My kids of there grandmother. NO MORE ITS OVER !!!
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Ring
09.21.11
Letter ID: 6243 Dear Cancer,
You are officially my enemy. I do not have cancer but I am working on how to defeat you!! I have just started my Phd study and get to work with you. I will be spending my days and nights to know you and I will work my ass off to find a way to bring you down.
