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They gave me 25 days to live three years ago

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 Ruth Wanjiku. She's battled three cancers 

The little painless pimple on her left leg bothered her. Many would have ignored it, but not 17-year-old Ruth Wanjiku. At 13, she had started working as a domestic help in Nairobi to support her siblings.

And due to life’s circumstances, she had developed an unmatched sense of independence; at least compared to her peers. And if nothing else, she had learnt that if her gut instinct was niggling, it was best she sits up and listens.  

“I wanted an ointment to get rid of the pesky pimple and that is why I went to see a doctor. I also wondered why unlike the other pimples I had elsewhere, nothing oozed out when I pressed it.”

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