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Meta-tation
"Meta." When used as a prefix, it connotes a change in the position or state of something. Metamorphosis is a change from one thing into a completely new entity. Once before, the term "meta" came into my life to devastating effect. In 1999, when my father was diagnosed with colon cancer and the doctor told me it had metastasized, so it was fatal. Two things crossed my mind at that moment: What kind of world doesn't have this man in it? And, metasta-size? Read next feature >
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