I'm very sad to say that a long time friend of mine passed away after a too-brief fight with cancer. Damon was a friend of mine from college, going back nearly twenty years.
Last spring she was diagnosed with borderline stage III/IV breast cancer. Triple negative, meaning no cancer drugs would work. After chemo failed, surgery was no longer an option, and the past two months saw a very rapid progression of the disease. She passed away Saturday October 22, and I attended a wake Saturday the 29th.
Damon was instrumental in my moving to New York. I lived with her for about 2-3 weeks on Long Island when I moved here, before I took a place of my own and got a job. While we have lived hundreds of miles apart most of the time since, we kept in touch and supported each other through some of the most difficult times of our lives.
Many people came to the wake, demonstrating the breadth of her life: Habitat for Humanity, local friends, Revolutionary War re-enactors, and people like me who just knew her a long time. Long estranged from her family, she was reconciled with them before she passed.
I am very sad to think that someone so distant yet constant is now gone from my life, and I will miss her very much.
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