Submitted in response to Lillie McFerrin Five Sentence prompt of “Grief”.
No one said this disease would be fair.
And yet no medical evidence had provided a definite answer.
In far too many cases the duration of suffering had been brief.
And she alone suffered her terrible grief.
Her husband joining the many who die of their terrible cancer.
Oh Danny Boy! 
It really is a tragic disease, taking people at will. Well penned.
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How true; and thank you for your kind comment.
DJ
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Most of us know someone like this. I know many.
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Same here!
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Cancer is a terrible disease.
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Terrible and sometimes so sudden.
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Very, I lost my step dad last year from Leukemia. Fine one day, in ICU the next, diagnosed with AML, then gone… on day 15. It still doesn’t seem real.
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