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How my cancer affects my daughter

I am always mindful of how everything I'm going through impacts my daughter Sydney. Never more so than when I'm thinking of my own mortality.

By Elana Waldman

Updated June 11, 2014

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I am always mindful of how everything I'm going through impacts my daughter Sydney. Never more so than when I'm thinking of my own mortality.

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