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"Signing the guest book at the cancer ward, I walked into a place where my father’s condition quickly deteriorated in the spring of 2019: he arrived exhausted with muscle pain, developed a blood infection that was treated with medications causing fluid buildup around his heart and led to a week of atrial fibrillation and a week of delirium, during which he couldn’t remember basic things, and while the doctors assured me such complications happen, it didn’t make seeing him unable to recall his own birthday any easier." - Terrence Doyle