How a diagnosis can change everything: “Contact with my father was lost. But when he got cancer, I sent: I’m coming now.”

Illness that leads to closer ties within families. It happened this week with the British royals and is recognizable. Also for Helga Van den Bossche (54), who missed her father’s parental love for a lifetime, but still took the first step after a cancer diagnosis. “We have had two wonderful years together and that makes me very grateful. Love requires gentleness.”

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