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WARSAW, INDIANA - Because he was only 12 years old, it makes me mad. Because it doesn't matter if the doctor says "brain" or "breast" or "cervical" or "liver" - if the word "cancer" follows, it makes me mad.

That this disease in its myriad forms feels permitted to touch children, and take them from adoring families, it makes me mad. I don't want any more families to be mad, either. I will always be mad at you, evil cancer.