Poor Chester's toe was amputated because the bone kept swelling and he couldn't walk on it, then the vet said it might be cancer but that he "got it all", which is just one of those things we hope is enough, hope being lighter than faith but of equal value.

I donated blood for a thirty-seven year old father of two because he has cancer, and it was good to see so many lined up for a man few of us knew, then I felt woozy as my pint of crimson O slowly…
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