When my daughter, Preslie, was eight years old, I noticed that her left eyelid seemed to be a little droopy. But I never expected it to be a type of cancer called adenoid cystic carcinoma of the lacrimal gland. Her left eye just was not symmetrical with her right eye. I didn't want her to feel embarrassed about it, so I didn’t bring attention to it. Her regular eye checkups never showed anything out of the ordinary discovered.

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