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LIFE IS TOO SHORT

A month after I turned 50 my ex-husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Eleven months later he was gone. He was 54. He left behind our three beautiful children to try to come to terms with a chasmal loss that they don’t yet fully appreciate. Life is too short.

With the diagnosis of a terminal illness there is no hope. There is just a decline – sometimes

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