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....