To Simon,
Finding you in January 2017, as I swiped on a dating app, was destiny.
You lived 15 miles from me, had kind blue eyes and a warm smile.
After I dropped you that first message, we fell in love quicker than either of us expected.
We had important things in common, you see.
You'd lost your wife to brain cancer in 2016, while I'd needed a hysterectomy after a cervical cancer diagnosis in 2015.
‘I know how tough that must've been,’ you said.
But we had such happy times, too.
Laughed through dinner dates, and I got to know your children, Ryleigh, then 8, Charlotte, 11, Tyler, 22, and Matt, 23.
Only, in December 2017 you struggled to eat, saying it hurt to swallow.
We'd always blamed your…
