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Stage IV Thyroid Cancer: A Short Story Of Hazel Grace Lancaster

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Hello, I’m Hazel Grace Lancaster and this is the story of the best and one of the worst years of my life. I became acquainted with the best person on the face of the heart, Augustus Waters. I don’t know how anyone so hot could love me, but he did, and it was amazing. Then I lost him. Let me tell you a little bit about me before I get into my sob story. I’m seventeen years old and I’m the only child to my loving and smothering parents. I was thirteen when I was diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer. When I was fourteen, I was in the hospital for pneumonia. Shortly after being admitted, fluid started to fill my lungs and I couldn’t breathe. That was the worst feeling in the world, or so I thought. Everyone thought that was it, I was gonna die.

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