From yesterday’s WaPo:
Just weeks until her wedding, Laurin Long sat down in front of the bathroom mirror, wrapped a blue-and-white striped towel around her shoulders and turned to her fiance.
“Go,” she said.
Michael Bank, 34, switched on the hair clipper and slowly started to shave her head.
“I woke up with bald spots this morning — so shaved head it is,” the 29-year-old then-soon-to-be bride told family and friends in February during a nine-minute Facebook Live video.
Laurin had battled breast cancer before and, in fact, had been bald when she met Michael three years ago.
The breast cancer had returned. This time it was Stage 4 and had metastasized to her bones, liver and lungs.
But despite the cancer and chemotherapy, despite doctors’ concerns about her deteriorating health, and despite their recommendations that she move up the March 24 wedding date, the couple pressed on.
It’s a lovely little story.
