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Motivational speaker Kelsey Parker has paid an emotional tribute to her late husband Tom Parker to mark World Cancer Day, and the star told how The Wanted singer's passing has "forever" changed the way she sees the world.

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00:00Today is World Cancer Day.
00:30And for some people, that's just the date on the calendar.
00:32For us, it's lining our life that split everything into before and after.
00:39Before cancer, I was just a wife, a mum, busy with normal life, normal worries.
00:45After cancer, I understood how fragile everything really is.
00:51Losing Tom to a brain tumour didn't just break my heart.
00:56It changed the way I saw the world forever.
00:59Grief isn't just sadness.
01:01It's love that has nowhere to go.
01:04It's learning how to carry someone with you instead of beside you.
01:09It's smiling for your kids when your chest just feels so heavy.
01:13It's surviving days you never imagined you'd ever have to face.
01:19Here's the part that people don't talk about enough.
01:22You can be grieving and still be grateful.
01:26You can be broken and still be brave.
01:30You can lose someone and still choose to live.
01:34Here's the first shield.
01:34I'll see you later.
01:36There are a few days in the past.
01:36I'll beuler.
01:37I'm sorry.
01:38It's grieving.
01:39I'll bearemos.
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