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Terminal Cancer Victim's Birthday Surprise.

submitted by Barseps

1 decade 2 years 9 months 1 week ago

A guy's true friend gets him a book five months before it's release date because he may not live that long.

10 Comments

Moving this video to Barseps's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

alien_concept

Oh man, lump in my throat just reading the summary... right now I'm sat here tears streaming. What an amazing friend, how bittersweet, gooooooooooooodddddddddd.

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Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by alien_concept.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Book, Early Release, Illness, Friendship, Caring' to 'Book, Early Release, Illness, Friendship, Caring, holy shit' - edited by alien_concept

Wow, how cool.

For any who don't know, Harry Turtledove is the Master of Alternate History and a fantastic author.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Turtledove

Reddit post asking for help (mentioned in the video): My friend has terminal cancer...

Followup post: A few weeks ago I...

One of the coolest videos I've seen on the Sift. Thanks for posting it.

Imagine if we were always this thankful for (and proactive about) being alive.

Ahh. A good friend in a cruel world.

Amazingly, NSFW and yet very extremely safe for humanity at the same time.

I Fucking Hate Cancer.

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