‘My boyfriend’s cancer battle was ruining my mental health, so I left him — now I’m running a marathon in his honour.” So read the headline of a recent article that appeared not in the Onion, as you might expect, but in the Daily Mail.
Danielle Epstein, 32, met her former partner, Jelle Fresen, 37, on a dating app during the pandemic. They moved in together after the second lockdown was announced. The couple planned to get engaged during a vacation last summer. Sadly, they had to cancel the trip after Fresen was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Hoping the tumor was benign, Epstein proposed to him anyway, vowing: “This isn’t going to get in the way of our future.” But it wasn’t benign. Fresen was diagnosed with stage-four brain cancer and given a 65 percent chance of surviving the next five years.
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