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“I was in denial of what it had done to me,” he says of his cancer diagnosis.

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"We see exclusion and denial of the rights of the Syrian people, such as elections. Therefore, the Syrian interim government does not represent the will of the Syrian people," she told Reuters news agency.

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In June, a Superior Court judge issued a landmark decision declaring the plan’s smoke damage policy violated state law, though it has since changed the legal justification of its denials.

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They are first denial like, “Did I really f— that up?”

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It’s one of my favorite parts of our story because it shows there’s a man in denial, right?

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