I'm eating cookies for lunch. My friend is lying in her bed at home surrounded by pieces of her heart as her human body succumbs to the cancer that aggressively attacked it. I'm unable to be there so I'm eating cookies for lunch. I'm in absolute hate of how cancer is robbing her family of their future together. Words are useless. Comfort is unfounded. Cancer is stealing my friend's life...her future...their futures as they now know, live and love it. I watch the milk-soaked cookie lose its attachment to the piece between my fingers crumble and slowly sink down into the milk realizing her body is doing the same. Piece by piece her body is crumbling. A lump of despair forms in my throat so I let the remainder of the cookie drop into the water watching it dissolve. Its original form no longer recognizable. Time is on pause. Memories from decades ago replay in my mind. School days...when life and laughter seemed lim...