Thursday, March 9, 2023

The Ten Best Things

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The Ten Best Things
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Count Your Blessings
By Cara Holman

The best things in life aren't things.
~Art Buchwald

"You know what I really can't stand?" Wendy asks rhetorically. "It's when people say cancer is a gift. I mean is that really something you'd like to receive? Would a friend give a friend cancer?"

"Yeah," chimes in Alice. "Some gift. Can I give it back? Say I don't want it? Maybe exchange it for something different?"

We are all getting in the spirit of it now. "Can we rewrap it and give it to someone else?"

"Or donate it to a white elephant sale?"

"Say politely, thanks but no thanks?"

As we all erupt into laughter, I sneak a glance around the room at the eight or so women assembled in a loose circle. The only prerequisite to joining this writing group was having received a cancer diagnosis at some previous point in our lives. A positive (in the clinical sense, that is) pathology report was our ticket for admission. A perk of getting cancer, if you will. (Keep reading)

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