Anne1 says 'when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade.'
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Initially it made me, I guess it made me sad and bitter because ‘why did this happen to me after I do everything right, I live right, I work out hard. You know, why?’ But then so what’s the use of why, you’re not getting anywhere with it, so buck up and get on with it. As my cousin said to me, ‘When life gives you lemons, what do you do? You make lemonade.’ [Laughs] And I thought that’s a really good analogy. So, yeah, that’s what you do.
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