<p>This past Friday a close friend of our family was fortunate to receive a lung transplant. Please, please consider being an organ donor if you are not one already. It is the ultimate gift.</p>
<p>I thought of LTS when I saw this today. Itās good to see some attention being paid to research on lung cancer.</p>
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<p>I miss her and I didnāt even know her.</p>
<p>i just read this thread, alll 322 pagesā¦ it has taken me an hour, but i feel awakened spiritually, rip LTS. and yeah, i wish by a miracle, she would be backā¦ i would like to talk to her/ chat with her/ read her words atleast onceā¦atleast once///</p>
<p>A friend is in hospice right now, dying after a many-years battle with cancer. I realized I have been losing friends/acquaintances at the rate of about 2 a year to cancer. Too many, too young.</p>
<p>We need a cure.</p>
<p>I am distressed and didnāt know where else to unload, so I came here to latetoschoolās thread. Thanks for listening.</p>
<p>Iām so sorry about your friend. Hospice is a wonderful thing at these times, providing help and support to the dying and their families. Hugs to you.</p>
<p>Hugs to you mommusic.</p>
<p>I think it is a wonderful tribute to latetoschool that her thread has become a place to seek solace.</p>
<p>Agree, mominva. This was always a place to either seek solace or to rage against the enemy.</p>
<p>Mommusic, I am sorry.</p>
<p>I am so sorry mommusic, to hear about your friend. I agree: Cancer is an enemy that must be defeated. At the same time, as we struggle against such things and as we watch those noble and brave loved ones we all have seen go through this struggle, I think the most beautiful aspects of what is best about the human condition are revealed. That, I think, is also very, very apparent in this thread that remains as a tribute to our beloved LTS.</p>
<p>Peace to you and your friend mommusic.</p>
<p>May our children see a cure in their lifetime.</p>
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<p>So true; very well said, mominva.</p>
<p>Mommusic, my deepest condolences. Please know that your friends on CC are holding you in our thoughts through this sad and difficult time.</p>
<p>LTSās thread is the one place where it seemed everyone was kind, encouraging, interested, knowledgeable and supportive. I can understand why you chose to post here and I wish you strength at this so very sad time.</p>
<p>Cherry blossom time. </p>
<p>Thinking of LTS.</p>
<p>They were early this yearā¦the blooms.</p>
<p>I hope LTSās daughter is surrounded by loving people, and I imagine she isā¦</p>
<p>Did LTS daughter ever know about the support and friends had here on cc? Always hoped she knew how much we all loved LTS. </p>
<p>Nariko Shikibu
Cherry blossom falls
Drifting in whisper soft breeze
Floats on still water</p>
<p>Thanks for the reminder. My cherry trees are blooming too.</p>
<p>Epistrophy, my flowering cherry treesā blossoms are just opening. We had a windstorm today but the blossoms held strong. Like LTS.</p>
<p>LTSās thread showed such strength, civility, compassion, grace. Quite a legacy.</p>
<p>I saw the azaleas blooming down here in Houston the other day and missed her.</p>
<p>I always think of her when I see red high heels.</p>
<p>Just found out a girl from Sā07ās high school class passed away overnight. Sheād been battling leukemia for 2 years. Only 20 or 21 years old, so sad.</p>