News Summary

• Rayya Elias had been my best friend for years.
• She was my confidante, my consigliere, my bodyguard, my safe person.
• The other truth was that I was in love with Rayya, but I’d been hiding that fact from her.
• After Rayya got over the initial shock of her diagnosis, she actually rather liked the idea of the sudden death the doctors were promising her if the cancer were left untreated.
• She liked the intensity of it, the swiftness of it and the freedom she felt.