I had the same type of lung cancer as Pope Leo. It reminded me what it means to live.

Ever since the news broke that Pope Leo’s diagnosis, the early frames of my own lung cancer story have been looping and re-looping through my mind.

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I had the same type of lung cancer as Pope Leo. It reminded me what it means to live.

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