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How personal tragedy complicates meaningful work

My research on childhood cancer might help save lives someday but my own son is dying of the same disease I study and the irony is crushing me every day I go to the lab.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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When life's work intersects with life's pain, purpose becomes both salvation and torment.

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