Initially, after Davids diagnosis, I would cringe when I readbooks or articles by cancer survivors who stated that cancer hadbeen a gift in their lives. How could all that David endured beviewed as a gift? The invasive surgery, the weeks of chemotherapyand radiation: a gift?Yet, after the cancer, David would often reach for my hand andsay, If it is cancer that is responsible for our new relationship, thenit was all worth it. And Id reluctantly agree that cancer had been agift in our lives. Wed both seen the other alternative: patients andsurvivors who had become bitter and angry, and neither one of uswanted to become that.

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  • Marriage — Partnership, commitment, and the journey of shared life

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