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I think everyone must have hope. My Aunt was orphaned in the 8th grade. My grandparents took her in because she lived in the community and both her parents had died of cancer. She is my namesake. At her birth her parents were in good health, young and no signs of illness. She always told her daughter that to prepare for a life with just Dad since her parents had such short lives she assumed she would. My cousin said at her mother's 45th b-day she was shocked that she was still alive. My aunt never had any health problems but had prepared herself and her children for her death (due to her genetics). I feel she robbed herself and her children of a lot of laughs and happy times thinking this way. By the way she is nearing 70 and has a personal trainer three days a week and walks 5 miles a day. Life is a crap shoot.
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