God Said, 'Ha!'

When it seemed things couldn't get worse, they did. Just weeks before Mike died, Julia was diagnosed with cervical cancer, bonding them in a giddily black-humored club of two and prompting them to refer to Julia's bungalow as the "International House of Cancer." Within days of Mike's burial, Julia underwent surgery and began her solo journey through this house she'd never expected to move into, one she'd seen only from the outside looking in.