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BITTER SWEET

AFTER years of desperate hopes and fervent prayers, finding out she was expecting another child was a dream come true – finally her little girl would have a sibling, finally their family would be complete.

But then something happened that would cloud her joy and force her to make a tough decision. Would she receive the treatment that would save her life, but risk harming her child – or would she forego treatment and possibly not live to see her baby grow up?

Arina Zandberg, a minister at the Dutch Reformed Church Bakenskop in Kimberley, had discovered a lump on her neck that turned out to be cancer and she and her husband, Dirk,

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