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"Job held his fist up, asking ‘Why, why, why?’ to which God responded, 'You’re not asking the right question'. " Bruce Schell, Kay's husband
In the twisting mountains of NC’s kookiest town, I visited Kay, a clinical psychologist and ex-tennis pro whose bucolic home belies the challenges of living with chronic illness, as well as her husband’s, Bruce, terminal stomach cancer. One sunlit afternoon with Bruce, Kay, and Kay’s beloved partner in dog therapy, Misha, I asked them about faith, and why we bother inviting love in when life is so cruel. This couple, tested by (and soon to be separated by) forces we can never understand, are significant to me because I began to truly face what I wanted from this journey. Bruce died in December 2011- I spoke to Kay, who misses him unbearably. But in this moment, in the summer before:
