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    COVID found my CANCER

    Nov 10, 2021 3 minutes
    As told to April Glover

    Jacqui Matthew, 49, Central Coast, NSW

    My phone pinged with a message from my son, Dan, then 23.

    My husband Neil and I had just dropped him in Sydney, where he was studying at university, after he’d spent the weekend with us.

    There’s a rumour someone in my class is COVID positive, Dan texted.

    I looked at the screen in confusion. It was March 2020, and COVID-19 was in the news, but it was still very new in Australia.

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