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Submitted to Contest #291
Note: This story contains sensitive topics such as underage drinking and cancer. Explanations are not extreme, but as these are sensitive topics I advise you to be cautious. This story is emotional. I’ve had my fair share of near-death experiences. Car crash, surgery gone wrong, you name it. My friends call it bad luck. I call it fate.There’s a start to every story. Mine begins at the age of five. Cancer, they said. It’d be a miracle, they said. Yet here I stand, six months shy of my eighteenth birthday, laughing in the grim reaper’s face. R...
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