Gaye felt that people were focused on feeling sorry for themselves in the support group she visited.

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And anyway I just I feel that you shouldn’t feel sorry for yourself. I feel that if you want to feel sorry for someone feel sorry for the children who have cancer and haven’t had a life yet or the young mothers who, like my neighbor down the street, had 4 little girls and she passed. That is a tragedy. I find that I cannot belong to cancer groups because I went to one dinner and people were up there telling their story and you know, “Oh poor me.” I wanted to stand up and say “Look around this room we are all living, tell positive stories, tell good stories, tell jokes.”

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