The Last Goodbye was Never Meant to be Like This

Photo by David Steinberg

Given that she had narrowly, and yet triumphantly, cheated death a year before while she was living in Poland, I was perhaps a little overconfident when my cousin asked for a phone call. Although she was her usual upbeat self, her words landed like dirt on freshly fallen snow.

I should not have been surprised. She had been fighting a very deadly form of cancer for a year. But…