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Always a Winner
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Tap into Your Inner Strength
By Al Serradell
He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
~Clarence Budington Kelland
The doctor’s grim diagnosis sent a collective shudder through the family. It looked as if Dad had cancer. The X-ray showed a large mass inside his brain.
Prognosis: Bad, really bad. Treatment needed to begin immediately. According to the doctor, my father was in for the fight of his life.
Literally.
But if anyone expected Dad to launch into histrionics or some display of denial, they were soon proven wrong. After taking a deep breath, my father lifted his head, looked the doctor straight in the eyes and said, “Could be cancer, huh? Well, either way, I’m a winner.”
The physician’s office filled with silence.
No doubt, Dad must have felt a dozen bulging eyes fixed on him as his family sat, incredulous at his reaction to the horrible news.
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