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James Van Der Beek Diagnosed With Colorectal Cancer: 'I'm Feeling Good'


James Van Der Beek has been ‘privately’ navigating a battle with colorectal cancer

David Livingston/Getty Images“I’ve been privately dealing with this diagnosis and have been taking steps to resolve it, with the support of my incredible family,” the Dawson’s Creek alum, 47, told People on Sunday, November 3. “Northern cardinals, the ‘romantic’ births that mate for life, travel together, sing before nesting and feed each other seed beak-to-beak during courtship,” an anonymous post that Kimberly reshared to her Instagram Story read. “So now it’s like, ‘What am I building my life around?’ [I realized] so many of the things that I entertained doing were either based [on] some outdated idea of what I thought would be important to make me happy or somebody else’s hope or dream or expectation.”

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