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[read this post to see what the memory sharing is all about]  At the end of Leah's memorial service on Friday March 27 at the Atlantic Beach Club, there was time to publicly share Leah-memories. Leah's friend Sarah McLean lives in Los Angelos, California so she recorded this video that was shared on the projector that day. The text version is below for those who can't watch the video. My name is Sarah Mclean, also known as "TV Sarah", and I worked at SEA CORP for 6 years alongside Leah. I wanted to share this memory with you all. I don’t know if this is common knowledge,but Leah was quite the prankster and practical joker. In fact,I didn’t know this side existed until I found myself on the receiving end. Well into my friendship with Leah, long after she had transitioned from just a “work friend” to a real friend, I got her and Bryan hooked on a TV show called ‘Veronica Mars’, about a sassy teenage private investigator. In 2008, a year after the show had ende...

[read this post to see what the memory sharing is all about] I remember when Leah was first diagnosed. It was pretty surreal for us all within and of itself, but then added was the backdrop that we already had a family member with cancer. This surely could not be happening. Because of the initial surgery and outcome I remember saying to Leah that it seemed like she had cancer with the “small C.” (I will never use that term again) This was a result of my own denial and chastisement, in part, but also the beginning of how this disease and its course invaded Leah’s body and the lives of those who loved her. No small part of this initial assessment of mine was the additional optimism one needs to feel when given a cancer diagnosis, test, and surgery results. Blog September 28, 2012: Surgery was completed at 5:15pm. Surgeon says it all went as planned, there was just the 1 tumor and he got it all. 18 inches of colon removed and many nodes for testing. Determined that no bag would be need...