Surviving for Shore
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I do not have cancer. But I trust that someone close to me at some point in my life will. I arrived at Forever Young Nursery School Wednesday for Surviving for Shore’s kickoff meeting nervous and afraid I would not belong. Cancer survivors Michele Reimer and Tina Kennis founded the group with the premise of strengthening those impacted by cancer through physical fitness. I'm not unfamiliar with the disease. My grandfather died just more than a year ago at 100 years old. While it didn't kill him, he did suffer from prostate cancer. There also was Lainie, a church friend who died at 12. I was shy at that young age, and she was one of the few children I felt comfortable talking to. Lainie and I weren’t all that close, only interacting on the…
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