"I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself."

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"I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself."

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"My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner."

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