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Yeah, both of dad's parents had colon cancer. His three brothers all had and are recovered from prostate cancer. I guess some of us have hit the genetic anti-lotto.

As I get older there are things about my grandparents that went unnoticed as a young kid but now I kind of go "whoa". My maternal grandpa was always laughing and playing with us and loved to throw the football with us. Even in high school I was apprehensive to play because every so often he would tell us here comes a bullet and I swear if we didn't catch it it would drill through our chest. I always knew he was pretty strong because he was a farmer. A few years ago I saw a picture from when he was in the army. He was shirtless and looked a lot like a young Burt Lancaster but the chest and arms were more Sugar Ray and I thought holy crap, no wonder he throws like Favre. Then mom mentions that picture was taken before one of his matches. Huh? Turns out he boxed for the army and was pretty good at it.