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Ok. Ok. Okay. Here we go. So Michie has cancer. Small, slow growing hopefully not in the lymph nodes cancer. Caught early, with clear margins hopefully all out of her body fuckin' breast cancer. She has cancer and that is never a good word to apply to anyone you love.

Tomorrow they will remove a lymph node under her left arm and check to see if the cancer has spread. (Please NO. Please. NO Please No.) I have good company during the surgery. Mary and Joanne - Articulate, intelligent funny women who can keep me on keel and sane. Friends who are true. I am so grateful for my friends.

On Saturday, we will get married legally. We will be surrounded by our family and that will be the best part of it all. A time to celebrate how truely wealthy we are in heart and community. It is these moments of deepest fear that you know how much you truly love and how much you have to lose.