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Terminal cancer, BUT HAPPIER THAN EVER

If you asked my friends and family to describe me, they’d say I’m a ‘glass is always half full’ kind of person. And while that is true, my positive outlook was tested to its limits when I was diagnosed with secondary cancer at the age of 49. I believed I only had a few years left. But here I am, now aged 61, happier than ever and living a fun-packed life.

My first brush with cancer was in 1993 when I was 30 and I had a cancerous mole removed on my right leg. For the next 17 years I was cancer-free and continued working

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