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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He sat beside me during treatments.

He watched terrible reality shows with me when I was too tired to do anything else.

Most importantly, he never treated me like I was broken.

He treated me like Elena.

Just Elena.

The girl he’d always known.

The girl he’d fought so hard for.

Six months later, new scans showed something nobody had expected when this continue reading …