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Cancer survivor creates honest empathy cards

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – A Los Angeles-based artist has come up with a creative way to cheer up cancer patients.

Emily McDowell has created a line of cards with funny comments on the cover and inside. One card reads, “Please let me be the first to punch the next person who tells you everything happens for a reason.”

Another says, “I promise never to refer to your illness as a journey, unless someone takes you on a cruise.”

McDowell is a cancer survivor. She says the worst part of chemotherapy for her, was loneliness and isolation.

She says she created the cards, because there needs to be a better way to communicate about sickness and suffering. McDowell wrote on her website that the cards are the most important things she’s designed so far, and they’re some of her favorites.

To see more of her products, and to read about her business, click here.