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When serious illness changes one person's relationship to faith within a friend group

My childhood friends and I always joked about religion but after my cancer diagnosis I started going to church and now when we get together I feel like I'm code-switching between two different versions of myself. They love the old me and I'm not sure they can love who I'm becoming, but I can't pretend this transformation isn't happening.

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