October 2017 I met the love of my life. There was only one small thing in the way. She lived in Taiwan and I live in California. We spent countless hours talking online and on the phone the following year. I finally got a chance to meet the one I fell so hard for in November of 2018 when she decided to move in with her sister living in San Francisco. The rest was history. We both were pretty jaded from past relationships and decided that re-marrying just shouldn’t be in the cards for us. My weekends were spent doubting that decision as we grew closer and closer together. I traditionally spend every Thanksgiving with very close friends that are like family to me. To my surprise, she was willing to come with me to meet them. It was then I realized I was a happier person with her around and couldn’t imagine not having her in my life forever. I also realized that all my reservations about remarrying were starting to disappear. I finally thought my life was complete,...but was it? Fast forward to the following Thanksgiving, I decided to break tradition and rent a cabin close to Reno. Prior to our weekend wedding I introduced her to my family, I had not told them our plans but my mother caught on quickly since we were both prematurely wearing our rings. Our goal was to buy a house and start preparing for retirement. But the COVID-19 pandemic had different plans for us. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to see her, so I told her to pack her things and head to Sacramento until the situation diffused. During this scary time she developed a cough that wouldn’t go away. Despite all the uncertainty with the pandemic, we went to Kaiser and where she had undergone many tests. The doctor delivered news that you would only hear in a romance novel that she had a tumor growing in her lungs and was spreading to other parts of her body. The decision was made for her to return to Taiwan where medicine is more liberal and she would be in the care of her whole family. She is to have treatments of chemo @ $3000 each and 8 treatments of immunotherapy @ $5000 each. With the costs of medical treatments piling up, my goal is to be able to visit her by our anniversary date.