[QM] 31 - A kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh. The fundamental things apply...

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Repeating the sentiment doesn't make it any more or less true. Saying it twice gives the illusion of comfort, of knowing that it's just a little thing in the long run. Women do it often, softening threatening things by saying them twice... as if saying it just the once means more than adding that backslash between the repetitive words.

You can be in love, but it means less when questioned if you are "in love/in love" because repeating it... just takes away the meaning. The same goes for most things in medicine.

A blood test is just a blood test, and it's true because at it's core... that is all it really is. When you look at it that way a blood test isn't the difference between healthy or sick. A biopsy is just a biopsy, because it's really just a small amount of you being taken away for another series of tests. That procedure is just the base of it all, the trouble starts when you think beyond those first steps.

I know that beyond those fundamentals that a blood test is a white count check, and a biopsy is the determination between benign or malignant. It's such a slight difference, but it makes all the difference in the world to the one hearing that side of the conversation.

Repeating the words in cancer doesn't help. You can't give someone relief by saying, "Well... it's just cancer... it's not cancer/cancer." It would be interesting to think about the difference between the two... but it's pointless.

Cancer is just cancer. Survival is just survival. Dying is just an end.

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But is a kiss really ever just a kiss?