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    Hands against background of a heart - Travelling With Intention: Why Is It So Important?

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    IMPEDIMENTS FACED: A safe return home from La Paz, Mexico

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Marcel Dufond
JoinedAugust 30, 2022
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Dictionary definition of kindness on page - Living and Dying With Cancer: Wonderful People on Our Journey

LIVING AND DYING WITH CANCER: New friends were the catalyst for change

Marcel Dufond·January 2, 2023
This is the follow-up to LIVING AND DYING WITH CANCER: A kind stranger made our world a better place, published...
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Snowy highway in winter - Living and Dying With Cancer: Help From a Beautiful Stranger

LIVING AND DYING WITH CANCER: A kind stranger made our world a better place

Marcel Dufond·December 2, 2022
This is the follow-up to LIVING AND DYING WITH CANCER: Gaining hope in a White Castle parking lot, published last...
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LIVING AND DYING WITH CANCER: Gaining hope in a White Castle parking lot

Marcel Dufond·November 1, 2022
This is the follow-up to LIVING AND DYING WITH CANCER: Treatment, the “good fight” and accepting help, published last month,...
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Cloud with silver lining - LIVING AND DYING WITH CANCER: Enduring "the good fight"

LIVING AND DYING WITH CANCER: Treatment, the “good fight” and accepting help

Marcel Dufond·October 5, 2022
This is the follow-up to LIVING AND DYING WITH CANCER: An introduction to the year the world changed, published last...
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LIVING AND DYING WITH CANCER: An introduction to the year the world changed

Marcel Dufond·September 5, 2022
What would you do on the day you found out you were going to die in two years? I would...
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