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Midnight Writer

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8. I worked with a MAGA who always maintained that cancer only struck people with weak characters.

Reply to DBoon (Reply #7)

Sun May 31, 2026, 05:12 PM

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He said if you were a strong person with a positive outlook that you would never get cancer.

I heard him say that to the faces of people who had cancer, or whose family members had cancer.

He died at the age of 57...from cancer.

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