“Boston and the fireworks is my bucket list trip. I am here with my sister-in-law, Gina. Two years ago on July 16 her sister was diagnosed with cancer. It was devastating. Cathy was diagnosed on July 16 and I was diagnosed on July 17. I couldn’t tell my husband, so I had to text it to him because we were all devastated over Cathy. She died a month later.”

“I had already lost my mom and dad. Now it is just my brother and me. I am a skin cancer survivor and was getting radiation while she was getting chemo. We were all three at the cancer center at the same time.”

“But we have overcome. I had my last treatment in December and I was just told to come back in six months. That is a big milestone. The side effects of the medicine are bad, but it is better than dying. This was my bucket list. My husband doesn’t travel, so I drug her along with me. We don’t sweat the small stuff. Our feet are swollen and hurt right now from walking on the cobblestone at Paul Revere’s house, but there are people a lot worse off then us. Surviving cancer gives you a whole new outlook.”

“My brother thanked me for coming so he didn’t have to. I married my college sweetheart. He is my best friend. We don’t ever argue unless he screws up or does something wrong.”

“I just found another penny. That is the third since yesterday. I believe in signs. Her mother’s last name is Longfellow and when I pulled up pictures of Boston to talk her into going, there was a picture of Longfellow bridge. She said, ‘Kristy, that is a sign, we have to go.'”

“We went to a baseball game today at Fenway Park and it is beautiful and historic, but the seats are only this big.”

“When the hair on the guy’s leg next to me was touching mine and she kept getting hit by the pony tail of the girl sitting next to her, we had to leave. We did buy peanuts and Cracker Jacks at the game. We are true Americans.”

“I recently quit wearing the boobs. Gina went boob shopping with me and told me if they were too big or too small. The first pair was too hot. I had to get home and take them off.”

“I wish I could take mine off. I am very honest with her when we go shopping or she asks me about the boobs.”

“When my hair first started coming out was hard. I kept putting the turban on and off and had to slap myself and say, ‘Get over it.’

“Kristy and Cathy had the same cancer doctor. He looked at Kristy and said, ‘I am going to save your life.'”

“Cathy told the doctor she just wanted to feel better. He told her, ‘That is on the other side of the rainbow.’ That was a beautiful way to say it.”

“My mother died when she was 59 and my sister died when she was 58. I am 56 and I am going to outlive both of them.”

“We have a good time wherever we go. We live in South Carolina and go to the next town and have a limoncello and laugh. I just hope I am a good support for her. We have a great friendship and we are sister-in-laws. We take care of each other. Right now our story has a happy ending.”

“I also had a tough year at my job at the school and it almost broke me, so I needed this summer break, but it will be better next year because my job will be different. This is what I have been living by. ‘Life is too short for shoes that hurt your feet, friends that make you feel bad about yourself, and jobs that crush your soul. Take a chance. Make a change. The time is now.'”