Guideposts – August 2019

34 GUIDEPOSTS (^) | August 2019
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Finding

Alice

BY BOB L., Brooklyn, New York

I

was diagnosed with terminal

kidney cancer two years ago. I

felt all the emotions you’d expect.

Shock. Dread. Grief. Self-pity.

One emotion surprised me. Even

more surprising, it turned out to be the

emotion that outlasted all the others,

growing stronger as the reality of the

diagnosis took hold.

That emotion is gratitude.

I’m not grateful that the cancer might

take my life before I even reach my