My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.

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The speaker discusses how the death of their mother due to cancer impacted them, emphasizing their desire to maintain emotional distance from personal experiences while assuming a role. However, they acknowledge that this particular event had a profound effect on them, regardless of their attempts to address it separately.

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