Good chemotherapy gifts are hard to find. After 20 years of friendship, Nancy nailed it. Glossy travel magazines arrived in the mail featuring pristine beaches and faraway cities. A Post-it instructed: “Hang in. We’re going one day.” Chemo ended. Surgery healed. Incurable lymphoma lingers. “Enough,” she said over the phone. “I’m planning Paris.” I’d never been. Nancy, fluent in French, whirled us through cobbled streets, toasting our friendship and life atop the Arc de Triomphe. Now isolated, with re-treatment looming, I travel nightly in my mind to the River Seine, Rodin’s gardens, Monet’s water lilies. Nancy’s gift lingers. — Lisa J. Wise
Real Life of an MSW 
Fabulous gift
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Memories are perhaps the best gifts of all.
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Indeed
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This is so beautiful!
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Wise, story is beautiful, and reminds us that the best gifts you can give are friendship, possibility and beautiful memories. Thank you for reading.
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Beautiful.
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Lois Wyse, may have said, it best “A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”
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#friendship
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Thank you for reading!
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