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Gord Downie Gets Real About His Cancer and Memory Loss in Heartbreaking New Interview
When Gord Downie announced this past summer’s Tragically Hip tour in the wake of his terminal brain cancer diagnosis, he still seemed invincible. Untouchable to the disease. In the rare photo that surfaced, he still looked like himself. When he graced the country’s stages this summer to the screams of sold-out