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		breezeTrowel on Oct 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, the... I would think that cancer is "this century's cancer".

tetris11 on Oct 10, 2023 [–]

It seems apt to me. I like the connotation of last century's cancer being this unspoken deadly thing that wore people down until they just died.

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