Rem, Adel, Cecil and Au circa 2004 Cecile at our high school reunion giving a speech on being a cancer survivor 2009 Finding out that Cecile , one of my best friends succumbed to cancer while perusing the news feeds on my Facebook account last Black Saturday, seems surreal to me. I am more of a visual person, hardly taking note of the written postings, more interested on photos and inane you tube cat videos. When I came across the condolences at her siste r's page , I was reading but not really comprehending what those words meant. Realization hit me and I started mourning her death with copious tears . We went to the same school in elementary and high school but only became very close when we attended a community college, hooked up with 2 other girls Au and Rem. I never imagined that it will be the start of fun friendship that anyone would wish they could have on their transition to adulthood. We connived on lying about our age when we applied f