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No one should be left suffering through cancer

Just recently in spring of this year, on April 29, late Friday morning, one of my beloved best friends forever and sister in Christ, Vicki Lee Cox, died from lung cancer at the age of 59.

She was from Sidney, Ohio, and is now buried at the Forest Hills Cemetery in Piqua, Ohio.

In my own honesty and being truthful, we as a nation — in the United States of America with the possibility of either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump being elected as United States president — should really start up a program to stand against cancer and find a way for a cure, because of my recent loss of a great friend on Facebook and Yahoo Messenger.

I occasionally deeply cry for my grieving over my loss.

Please go to the website Stand Up to Cancer at www.standup2cancer.org to know exactly what I am talking about.

No human being should go through what my BFF went through: suffering with cancer without a cure!

Scott Presnal, Morro Bay

This story was originally published September 2, 2016 at 6:51 PM with the headline "No one should be left suffering through cancer."

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