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considered innocent and less proven guilty in a court of law. Thank you so much for listening. It was You don't know anybody

Until you told someone

It was January of 2010 and my world changed.

My father was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome, which is a blood cancer.

My father was this guy who was sweet and gentle and hardworking.

He never complained about anything.

He never went to the doctor. He had been living in pain for a while, but just didn't want anybody to know. We were now heading into this terrifying

future for our family, and we had no idea what to expect or how bad it would be. But now he was

sick. He could no longer work, and he was already so, so frail. I needed a distraction. I logged back into some online

dating. As I was his best friend, of course, I would hear the stories. We all would at work. It was

like story time. She would come in like, oh my God, you guys, you don't believe what this one did,

or where we went for a date or what he tried to do. It was actually comical, and we weren't laughing at her. Even she was laughing at some of it. Like, these people really exist out there.

So then we'd give her feedback.

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