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Reality Check

Reality Check

By Maria Shriver
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Here’s a reality check for you this morning.

“If you are reading these words right now, then I have died.”

Those were 42-year-old psychologist Sarah Mendel's words in a final video posted online after her passing. Mandel, a wife and mother of two young daughters, created the video upon learning that she had little time left in her fight against Stage 4 breast cancer, which she had been battling since 2017.

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