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I'm Kate Boller and this is Everything Happens.

So, you know sometimes life is just motoring long and then out of nowhere the wheels fall off and suddenly life as you know it is veering off in an insane direction.

This podcast is about those times. It's about the times when suddenly life isn't taking you anywhere you hope to go.

And what we learn when we're stuck. Ever since my own diagnosis with stage 4 cancer I've learned a lot about dealing with life's heartbreaking turns.

And I'm still learning partly by having conversations with fellow travelers.

And one of those travelers is here with me today. Her name is Lucy Kalanathy. You may have heard of Lucy.

She's the wife of the late neurosurgeon Paul Kalanathy who wrote the best-selling beautiful book when breath becomes air.

Paul died of cancer at 37 before he could finish the book and Lucy carried this incredible manuscript to publication.

So, Lucy knows what it's like to have this sudden shift off of the life she hoped for.

And I wanted to talk to her about what she learned in the process, especially what she learned about love.

It is so good to see you here today.

Thanks for having me.

So, your life with Paul is an amazing love story. What made you fall in love with him in the first place?

So, Paul and I met in our first year of medical school and he fell in love with me at first sight.

What? That's what he said. That's awesome.

And then I knew he was the smart intellectual guy in our med school class.

But I realized about three weeks into school that he had a fake mustache on his medical student ID.

Stop it.

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