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But The Key To Our Marriage Is The Capacity To Give Each Other A Break. And To Realize That It's Not How Our Similarities Work Together; It's How Our Differences Work Together.

I Might Have Skipped Class, But I Didn't Miss Any Lessons.

If You Were To Rush Into This Room Right Now And Announce That You Had Struck A Deal - With God, Allah, Buddha, Christ, Krishna, Bill Gates, Whomever - In Which The Ten Years Since My Diagnosis Could Be Magically Taken Away, Traded In For Ten More Years As The Person I Was Before - I Would, Without A Moment's Hesitation, Tell You To Take A Hike.

Certainly People Have A Lot Tougher Situations Than I've Had To Deal With. But I Will Say We Are All Dying From The Moment We Are Born. This Is Not Just Rehearsal.

There's A Connection That's Hard To Explain. It's The Feeling I Get When I See Someone Shuffle Up To Meet Me, Or Say Something, And I Can Instantly Tell By The Cant Of Their Head Or By The Movement Of Their Arms -- And These Are People Who Aren't Even Full-blown Symptomatic -- That They're One Of Us. And The Look They Give Me, It's Not Just Gratitude -- I Don't Care About The Gratitude -- But Solidarity. And Shared Optimism. And A Resiliency That Just Makes Me Think We're Doing The Right Thing, And That This Truly Is A Community.