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With cancer diagnosis at 32, Phillips finds strength, learns from previous struggles to help beat it back
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Brittani Phillips poses with her father, Ron Whitehurst, in her guidance counselor office in the Price Middle School building Wednesday. (MARK BLUMENTHAL / Palatka Daily News)
Brittani Whitehurst Phillips understood struggle.
In her early years, she grew up in a single-parent household eating Ramen noodles and macaroni and cheese when her father, Ron Whitehurst,…