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This book is dedicated to a friend of mine who inadvertently fed my mind with the ideas for this story from Mark’s point of view. Irene called me frequently during her husband’s fourth battle with cancer. Sometimes at three in the morning when she was finally home from the hospital. It was my privilege to be the person she called. Jerry is like me, very talented at growing tumors. We excel at it in a way that frustrates the doctors and other medical personnel in our lives. Myself, I have been terminally ill since October of 2008, but remain alive with the pain and the tumor. Much of Tatie’s situation mirrors my own daily life, although I haven’t met a Mark who is willing to help or love. If possible, I would give Jerry and Irene what life I have left. I believe that they would use it far more wisely than I. They are two people who adore each other, who have accepted the difficulties in life with both gusto and peace, each emotional and spiritual state well-known to all three of us. All three of us trust the Lord, our Father in Heaven, who knows us personally and is the reason we have peace in the turmoil. I know He is there, and that He loves me, that He allows me to struggle with the pain in this life because it is the only way I can become spiritually strong enough to return to where He is. A frequent misquote is that He won’t give us any more than we can handle. The real quote is that He said He wouldn’t give us anything more than we can handle with Him. And He is there every time I look. I know it so firmly that I have no fear of passing to Him, then facing the next adventure in life. Of all things in life Humans face, no matter how loved or unloved they are, how righteous or otherwise, no matter their circumstances on the earth, even if the room is full, each dies alone. Tatie was prepared to do just that. Mark had already been through the difficulties of loss with his wife, Laura, and thought he was prepared. Then, the whispers started. In his attempts to provide a beautiful, safe place for the older woman to die, both Tatie and Mark had forgotten that the Lord can and does occasionally have something else in mind.