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(On What Youâd Tell Your Younger Self About Facing Uncertainty) - I would tell myself that my story was not written in stone, and that I would go from being bedridden at the time of diagnosis with Lupus at 40, to being able to climb out of despair and hopelessness, to literally being able to summit fourteener mountains in my home state of Colorado at the age of 50. â Cay L.
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