Tag - metastatic breast cancer

Last week I travelled back to Iowa to celebrate the life of a childhood friend.  She was kind and vivacious.  A daughter, a mother of four.  Why she was taken so soon from the many who loved and needed her, no one will understand.  All I know is the acute pain of bidding farewell to someone I’ve known for decades, and my age as well.   When I learned she was gone, I had been standing impatiently in a restaurant awaiting my overdue takeout order, making a mental inventory of everything I needed to do that night, the next day,…