No one really tells you how to feel

Pragya Agarwal
Sep 6, 2018 · 3 min read
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There is no rule book, is there?

“We think that it is cancer”, the nurse said, hesitantly and gently.

The C word. There it was. That word that we all dread.

Numb, I didn’t know how to react. I didn’t feel anything. All the film clichès came back to me; I felt like I was floating above my body. Or, was I thinking about getting out of there and getting…

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