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Years ago, a woman with a bad personality told me she hadn’t enjoyed walking through the halls at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. “It was so depressing,” she said.  “All those cancer patients!  They look so awful — pale, exhausted, bald.  I couldn’t wait to get out.” Now, here was a dilemma.  I could either take the high road, I figured, or be a bitch. Talk about an easy choice.  “I guess you didn’t realize,” I said, “that I’m a cancer survivor, too.”  Read more >

For the past couple of years, I’ve stared at my passport photo and wondered who that person was.  Her hair was short and a different, darker color.  She looked younger.  Sometimes, the security guards at the airport would stare at the photo, then at me, then back. That all stopped when my passport expired.  I’d need to apply for a new passport and get a new photo, even if I wasn’t going to be moving to Canada like most of my liberal friends if the election(TO CONTINUE, GO TO: http://www.geezersisters.com/  Read more >