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But cancer was a disease for other people, older people-sick people, for God's sake. I was thirty-seven and in good health, so it wasn't even a possibility lurking in the corners of my imagination on that hot July afternoon, my son's fifth birthday. I had placed five candles on the cake and was just putting on the sixth for good luck when the phone rang.
We listen back to an interview with George Clooney, now a Kennedy Center Honoree
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George Clooney says the press has a duty to 'always question authority'
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How Silicon Valley's new tech right has profited by aligning with MAGA
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