Augustus Waters Research Paper

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The memorable memories that Augustus Waters has left with Hazel Grace Lancaster has made Hazel grieve even more knowing Augustus is deceased. Hazel Grace Lancaster was a sixteen year old young lady, who had a touch of Thyroid cancer with metastasis forming in her lungs. She was thirteen when she had her first sign of cancer, and that was depression. “Although depression is not a sign of cancer it’s a sign of dying”. The oncologist set up a support group so Hazel could associate with newer people that have a similar or maybe the same situation as Hazel. Hazel hated this support group with a highly strong passion. Until she met this dreamy guy named Augustus Waters. Augustus and Hazel were best friends for quite sometime, they were
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It had said “My name is HAzel Augustus waters was the great star cross the love of my life, ours was an epic love story and i won't be able to get more than a sentence out of it without disappearing into tears. Gus knew Gus knows i will not tell you our love story cause like all love stories it will die with us as it should. I hope that he would be eulogizing me because there is no one i would rather have, i can't talk about our love story so i will talk about math. I am not a mathematician but i know this, there is an infinity between 0-1 there is .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course there is a bigger infinite set between the numbers 0-2 or between 0-100000 some infinities are bigger than other infinities, a writer we used to like taught us that there are days many days of them than what i resynthesize my unbounded set i want more number than i'm likely to get and got i want more numbers for Augustus Waters than what he got but Gus, my love i can not tell you how thankful i am for our little infinity i wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me forever with in a number of days and i'm grateful”. After Hazel went home 8 days later she got a phone call saying Augustus the love of her life has passed aways in the ICU she broke down and never picked

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