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By Ed Chen | September 18th 2009 08:35 PM | Print | E-mail
A high school student I mentor, Augustus, once brought up the matter of dying -- specifically from cancer.  "Dying of cancer is like the feeling you get when you are stuffed into a closet, except you never get out."