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Cool Melt

September 28, 2024 3 Comments

By Bruce Carrington

I feel the heat of the sand on my spine. I hear Bob Marley playing in the background, asking if I can be loved. I absolutely and definitely cannot be loved. Not now anyway. I don’t even need to be anymore. I shake my head to the beat of the heartwarming song and sip my chilled margarita, taking in the ocean breeze from the Atlantic. The sun and the ocean are like a drink, heating me up and chilling me down at the same time. Just like my cancer: showing me how to live and killing me at the same time.

 

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  1. Chris says

    September 29, 2024 at 2:13 am

    This resonated with me as a cancer survivor. Well done and thank you.

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  2. Vivian says

    October 1, 2024 at 7:27 am

    Perfection!

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  3. Mike King says

    October 2, 2024 at 9:38 pm

    I thought I knew where you were going until that last line. Wow!

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