I’m going down to MA to see a good friend who’s in her 6th year battling stage IV ovarian cancer. It’s a visit we’ve put off longer than we should have and while I expect she’ll be around a while longer, that MFing tumor keeps recurring and we know where that leads. So I will be late joining…

But I WILL join. Will encourage her to as well. If she outlives that SOB, she can die happy. (For context, she fled the Iranian revolution as a teenager. She knows all about authoritarian misogynist governments.)