Need a good cry?

[Moderator1]

Read this

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/...est&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection&_r=0

 

[UNCGrad]

Man, this line:

No wonder the word cancer and cancel look so similar.

 

[User 149557]

There wasn't an ounce of sap in that and yet so affecting.

I was worrying about something trivial before I clicked on that. I don't remember what it was and it really doesn't matter.

 

[jr/shotglass]

OK, shouldn't have read that at work. But thanks.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Some old grade-school friends of mine are going through this -- they were the HS power couple and now almost 30 years later have three teenage kids. The husband, after he was diagnosed, wrote a play with this very theme, making sure his wife has someone to grow old with. The hometown theater company put it on. It took guts for them to put their lives out like that.

I noticed hers was the first FB feed that I came across this column. It's staggering to even think about.

 

[jlee]

I had started reading this a few times at work and had to stop to edit stories, answer calls, whatever. It didn't affect me those times, and I was very skeptical of the many guarantees that this ... let's call it a love letter? ... would bring anyone to tears.

I read it in full just now. I staved off a full-blown sob. For now, that is.

 

[FileNotFound]

If somebody loves you the way this woman loves this man, you win.

I've never seen so much beauty in heartbreak.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I don't know whether to thank you for pointing me toward that, or to curse you.

I couldn't help but think about her kids, too. My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer just as I was heading off to college. She died just before I graduated. It devastated my dad.

I agree, @FileNotFound. When you find love like that, you've hit the jackpot in life.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Probably should not have read that at my desk.

 

[jlee]

Sob not averted.

 

[Rhody31]

A person who can write such a brilliant piece like that days away from death like that possesses strength I don't think I ever will.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

That part where she wrote that she may only have a few days left really got to me.

 

[Deskgrunt50]

Dammit. Moddy. Thanks and dammit. Beautiful work. And heartbreaking.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

RIP

Terminal Author Who Wrote Heartbreaking Dating Profile for Husband Dies at 51