Monologue About Cancer

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Cancer. We all know about it. We all know that it ends in death inevitably. Death. Is it good or bad? We all have our own ideas about it. What if Death came knocking at your door in one day, one beautiful sunny day? What if the darkness that you never thought that was coming to the ones you love came barging in without warning. Well, that happened to me. Death came without even ringing a doorbell, it came like it was a brother that we loved. It came after my mother specifically, but it hits everyone with a wave of what will happen, with a wave of what people are expecting to happen sooner or later.
On November 23, 2013 at 1:59 P.M. I was with my best friend in the entire world, not having a care in the world. On November 23, 2013 at 2:02 P.M.
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I understand.” But they didn’t… I could never say that though, so I smiled; I accepted the food. During this time, I ignored my mother though. I don’t think I quite understood what was really happening. I didn’t like to see her in pain, but by doing things, looking back now, I believe I caused her more pain, which causes me pain, and this goes in a never ending conundrum. Looking back three years later, though I didn’t grow up at the time of the past events, I grew up thinking back on all the events. I was a small child, who was scared of what was happening, thinking about all of the negatives, all of the “What if’s”, now I am thinking about the “What happens now?” “What will I do in the future to help children like me and our mothers.” That is how this experience has really made me grown up. Now I am apart of the Relay for Life movement, and I am starting my own not-for-profit called Princess-Prince-Hope-Project, which will give joy to children with pediatric cancer and hopefully make their parents smile. Now I wear a bracelet that to others represent Lokai, but to me represents something greater, something bigger than one person. The purple represents the stories I have heard about Epilepsy and the Relay for Life movement. The blue, represents Emily Fedorko, a friend of everyone, a gymnastics friend to me, who died and has inspired me to do more in life. The green, which represents everything that is in life, and everything that is beautiful in life. Finally, pink, the most important to me, the color of breast

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