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The surprises in life sometimes come pleasantly, sometimes they come sadly. The meaning of the phrase itself is something that comes unexpectedly and ends up being a surprise. This time Ivy admits that she didn't like the surprise she got. Unlike the Christmas presents, the surprises that had happened to her life recently affected her to the point where she became very stressed.
It's been two weeks since Jayde left her life and her father was diagnosed with stage three pancreatic cancer. Doctor Beaford told her the cancer was progressing very fast. Previously her father was still in stage two. But her father's stubbornness not to take medicine and various other factors made the disease grow more vicious.
