My prom dress stayed untouched while I faced a stage 3 diagnosis—until my date did something at prom that changed my life forever.

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I looked down quickly before he could see my eyes filling with tears.

“Thank you.”

The drive to prom felt strangely normal.

We talked about teachers.

Graduation.

Friends.

Movies.

About why he was wearing a hat to prom.

Anything except cancer.

For twenty minutes, I almost felt like a regular teenager again.

Then, we pulled into the school parking lot.

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