Brendan
Ex Member
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Interesting story you tell. About 3 years ago (summer '02) I heard tell (never met her or knew her) about a 23-y/o girl who had recently died of melanoma. Sad story, stuck with me for some reason. Anyway, I'd tripped over the story, literally, when I was looking for the classified ads and stumbled on the obituary page. For some reason I saw the photo (young, good looking, out-of-place on an obit page) and read the obituary. Anyway got me to checking out my skin (I'm a bit of a hypochondriac) and found a funny looking mole on my shoulder. Went to the doc, had it sliced off. Sure enough, super-early stage melanoma. Got it in time, no problem... Then here I am going through some old papers to toss in the trash a few months ago (I almost never look at the front page anymore, too depressing) and I see on the front page, the story of this girl! Needless to say, the "superstitious hick" in me went into overdrive for a little while... But then, weird coincidences, are the story of my life, so I ended up being not too surprised. Some might say, this wasn't an accident (in the story, it said she hoped "no young person would ever have to die of cancer again"... it was a story about a foundation in her name) that I stumbled on her obit, got worried and caught my own melanoma early. But that's absurd. Why would a beautiful, happy, future-is-bright 23-y/o with her whole life ahead of her, have to die so a washed-up, tired-out, cigarette-addicted 34-y/o heap of gangrene like me could have a few more decades of life? This is just another reason I'd prefer to believe in a random, mechanistic reality... these sort of idiocies wouldn't be entertained by credulous fools...
B-man
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