"Four and a half years later, Cancer won. By then I'd moved to Idaho and in those pre-text/email days was only exchanging sporadic contact with Cliff with a landline call here and there. He told me during one of those calls that the damned stuff had returned and that it didn't look good but that he was going to fight it. Hard. Never said much more about it and I didn't really ask then one day the phone rang and I got the news from his sister. A short, to-the-point, call. Told her I was sorry.…"
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