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He looked back at her, and she wondered where she had seen hi she had seen those very sareen eyes somewhere before He looked very fanose you with?"

She sered the pages of the book on her lap as she said, "I was diagnosed with a chordolanced at hi about He did not, so she explained, "It's technically a bone cancer and it is a very rare foret it" There was another glance, and then she continued, "To explain in big words, a chordoma is a rare type of cancer that develops fro baby in the womb After about six months, most of the notochord is replaced by the bones of the spine However, small amounts of the notochord may remain and these can sometimes develop into a chordoma" She stretched her neck a little and he could see the tension in her shoulders as they pulled up "My chordo that it had pushed itself insideit both a brain and bone cancer" She laughed sarcastically, at a joke she shared only with herself "It is a miracle I can walk or even sit here in the sun today"

Troubled he asked, "What have the doctor's done? They must be able to make you better, can't they?"

She looked at hieries to remove most of the tumour There is, of course, Proton Beam Therapy, which is a type of radiotherapy effective in treating chordoma, but it is not an option, because it's not yet available here, and my mom cannot afford it anyway" She pulled at the skin around her chewed thumbnail "It will only be available here froer be available Besides, it's too late for me and I have accepted it" She added softly as if she was talking to herself, "I'll be okay"

" You must have been so scared" He looked at her concerned

" I was just so relieved that so with me I cried for days from sadness, fear, and relief"

" Relief?"

" Yeah, cause being so tired all the tiination After three s, and decided to live, however many days I have left, but it's not as easy as it sounds"