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Scots mum with cancer who lost both parents to disease ditching her watch so she can embrace life

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A woman who lost both parents to cancer while dealing with her own diagnosis has decided to stop wearing a watch - so she can embrace life.

Both Eric Duffus, 76, and Elizabeth Duffus, 72, died from cancer while daughter Gill Duffus-Simpson, 44, was dealing with her own illness.

All three were diagnosed within three months of each other at the end of 2010 and the start of 2011. But Gill Duffus-Simpson, a mature student, from Moray, says she doesn't want cancer to define her.

And she's taken the unusual step of taking off her watch permanently - to try and appreciate time more. She said: "When I got my diagnosis I was catapulted out of this world - I went into a bubble.

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