On May 21: The Rapture Meets My 40th Birthday
@Lacy Poe's Law in effect, ladies and gentlemen.
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On Some Awesome Things To Say To A Cancer Patient
Cancer survivor here. This post brings back some bad memories but it's also pretty funny and accurate. I had Hodgkin's lymphoma when I was 10 years old, and now more than 20 years later, I still remember when my clueless best friend told me that I probably wouldn't have gotten cancer if I had just eaten more fiber (TV commercials at the time were touting the anti-cancer benefits of bran flakes and such). At that age I didn't know how to verbalize how much it hurt me when he implied that it was my own fault.
Recently I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Did you know that children who receive radiation treatment for cancer (as I did) are much more likely to get diabetes later in life? So far I've kept it a secret from everyone except my mother, because I don't want anybody fucking judging me or telling me that I deserve it because I ate too many donuts and french fries.
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On It's Cute That New York is Slowly Catching Up with Wisconsin
Why is this story illustrated with a photo of Matt McCormick?