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Mission

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Mission

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Charlie Wilson:

What's up, this is Charlie Wilson, a.k.a. your uncle Charlie. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2008. Still fighting; not a winner, not a loser. I'm gonna win the battle. That's right, cancer free

Greg:

What's up, this is Greg and I beat kidney cancer. True story

Michael:

My names Michael, I'm a lung cancer survivor four years in remission

Bernadette:

My names Bernadette and I beat stage 1 breast cancer

Angela:

I'm Angela, I'm 50 years old, and I've been through 9 surgeries in 3 years. Fuck you cancer. You may have taken my breasts and uterus, but you can never take my heart

Ann:

My names Ann Marie, and I'm living with stage 4 lung cancer

Kourtney: My names Kourtney and I beat thyroid cancer

(Bunch of mashed up talking about beating cancer)

Kathy:

This is Kathy Phillips and I beat the living shit out of breast cancer. Cancer definitely picked the wrong bitch to mess with. Fuck you cancer! I'm a survivor baby!

Charles:

Hey my name is Charles Porter, and I had stage 4 Hodgkin's lymphoma. I went through a year of strenuous chemo, then I had a bone marrow transplant where they gave me salvage chemo, and 5 days twice a day, full body radiation to basically bring my immune system down to nothing. I literally died to stay alive umm... come April I'll be in my 3rd year remission and it was a team effort. All the friends and family I had came together

And uhh I had to keep that mental strong, but umm

We got through it uhh, some fallen soldiers went as I fought uhh, but they'll always be heroes

Peace!

If I had a dollar for every time they counted me out

And my back was up against the wall

I could have died but I came out fighting, fighting

Could have died but I came out fighting

Could have died but I came out fighting

Could have died but I came out fighting, fighting

Yeah, with a breast full of lungs she ain't no pun

She gonna ride on it like a chopper in a trunk

Pink ribbon women she gonna live forever

Even though the doctor say she only get a month

Said it's my life and you only get it once

These flowers smell too damn good to be living in the funk

So I finna get it in and I finna get a crunk and I finna get the living (a-a-ah)

On remission from the jump

Breast cancer can't hold me back

That's the answer when they told me that

It can knock me down but I'm gonna be back

Strong, down for whatever exceptional and I don't know how to quit

And I never said never you can have that hair cause real talk bitch

I think I look better let's do it (do it)

Fighter, with everything inside ya

Reportin' live from Death Row

Drop the charges see the lifer

Cell phones and your lighters

Need you to put them up higher

So many candles on her birthday cake

Might set that thing on fire, hey

Yeah, seven years old with stage four

This what champions were made for

Only so much fun raises pain for

So I guess the rest is all on me

That will to live against what's out here

Killin kids' well kiss my ass it ain't killin' me

Got things to paint

Got places to go

I Got things to see

Wanna see my moma grow up

Hold up, hold up

Wanna see my daddy grow up

Hold up, hold up

I'm bald headed and brave hearted, I'm small

But I'm a hundred feet tall, try to stop me

Biopsy after biopsy

Chemo, but I'm a king though

I shake everything off me

Lymphoma can't hold me back

It can knock me down but I'm gonna be back

Throw some SpongeBob in my Hot Wheels track

I'm a made man, made wishes

I ain't scared, I ain't flinching

Sorry momma but I gotta say it

But where I'm from they don't make bitches

Let's do it

Went undiagnosed and untreated

When they finally found it told em

It too far along and he couldn't beat it

But he couldn't see it

Miss me with that dead talk

Miss me my legs walk

And my heart beats and my wife witness

So fuck cancer my life with me

And if I died it'd die with me let's do it

Might set that thing on fire, yeah

Yeah we might set that thing on fire, yeah

Yeah we might set that thing on fire

Set that thing on fire, set that thing on fire, yeah

If I had a dollar for every time they counted me out

And my back was up against the wall

I could have died but I came out fighting

Could have died but I came out fighting

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Yes. The related section below points to Free Chilly (Interlude) and Hi-Definition (feat. Snoop Dogg & Pooh Bear) with a short reason for opening each page next.

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