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 J. M. W. Turner, Burning Ship, 1830

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Melanie McKay

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Waterfront, 1981

Greg Girard

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Los Angeles–based designer Emily McDowell was diagnosed with Stage 3 Hodgkin’s lymphoma at age 24, enduring nine months of chemo and radiation before going into remission.

“The most difficult part of my illness wasn’t losing my hair, or being erroneously called ‘sir’ by Starbucks baristas, or sickness from chemo,” McDowell writes on her website. “It was the loneliness and isolation I felt when many of my close friends and family members disappeared because they didn’t know what to say, or said the absolute wrong thing without realizing it.”

The 38-year-old designer has been cancer-free ever since. But the emotional impact of the experience lingered, inspiring her to design a newly launched series of Empathy Cards—emotionally direct greeting cards that say the things she wanted to hear when she was ill.

The blurbs about each card are great to read (click on the photos), as is the Slate article describing the inspiration for the card line

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From The Dwelling

Spencer Murphy

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“The Man in Black” - Johnny Cash - pictured here in a recording studio in 1969. (Michael Rougier—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #LIFElegends

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Jan Tarasin（Polish, 1926-2009）

Records Ⅲ     1993    indian ink, brush, paper

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Juan Chavarria Jr.

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