Book Club Blues.
"Try not to fall too madly in love with me over coffee - I hear it's unbecoming on first dates."

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Cassidy volunteering in Kenya last summer.

When I stood at that ledge, it became real.
More real than some shaky arbitration made slouched in a sterile clinic La-z Boy with an IV in my arm.
More real than the slow, dull ache that haunted me for six years.
More real than the doctor's 'prognosis' that confirmed to me it was all for nothing.
Sickened me to fight. Sickened me to look in the mirror and know I lost the war.
It sickened me to live.
And that gave me the strength to survive. To bare teeth in the face of death and bite back.
If I was going to die, then I would give him hell.
That night, I got back home around twelve. Chords screamed raw, my lips stuck together from disuse.
I got a text.
My heart dulled. I was sure it'd ruin all the courage I'd finally built. Confirm the news I'd been waiting for.
"Hi, Cassidy! Stayed in late to get your results looked at. It's early, but the new treatment appears to be working! We can schedule..."
And to me, that's the whole point of life; things don't just end.
You fight tooth and nail until the very last moment. Because there can be a lifetime between the clauses.

-An excerpt from Cassidy's autobiography.