"i had such a deeply american belief that my individual effort, my hustle in hard work, my sort of inherent deservedness," she says. "That i didn't even leave room for the possibility that you can do all the right things, and and that, and that." She adds: 'You begin to feel like you've earned your life, deserved your life, that you don't even need luck,. Like you buldos a path'
Kate Bowler certainly thought so, until her entire belief system was thrown into question when she was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at age 35.
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