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Swayze: 'I'm Going Through Hell'

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted Jan 6, 2009 2:29 PM CST

(Newser) – "Yeah, I'm scared. Yeah, I'm angry. Yeah, I'm all that stuff," Patrick Swayze tells Barbara Walters in a candid interview that airs tomorrow, the first since his pancreatic cancer diagnosis. "I'm going through hell, and I've only just seen the beginning of... Read full story »

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