Cancer Doesn't Care Life is a series of lessons which we can learn if we choose...but I learnt a very hard one recently, when I realised that… Cancer Doesn't Care Cancer doesn't care' was the hook line from one of the cancer charity television adverts that I'd seen. That phrase "Cancer doesn't care' stayed with me right throughout Christine's time of illness. But to begin with - the eight years and eight months we spent together - her final years - began when Christine and I met online back in 2011. To me, then a man of 58, the online dating site 'Plenty of Fish' was a very alien environment and one I really didn't feel at all comfortable in. However, I wrote what I thought was an honest appraisal of myself, added a reasonably recent photograph, and posted it on that site. The first 24 hours wasn't great I can tell you. For example, I wasn't sure how I was supposed to respond to e-mails which simply consisted of "Hi".
by David Evans
A person whom I felt so completely 'right' with, that to not fall head over heels in love with Christine was unthinkable, and' head over heels' came very quickly to us both. And so my brief encounter with 'Plenty of Fish' dating site ended, as the very best time of my life began.
On our first date, just an evening meal at The Curlew, I was pretty much a nervous jabbering wreck, something which amused Christine for years afterwards when we recalled it! At the end of that date I thought to myself; “Well that's that, you idiot, you've blown it for sure. She'll never want to see you again”.
In truth however, what happened was that we quickly became The following day though, on a late completely inseparable. We felt and April evening, I got a lovely e-mail, we were 'as one'. We always walked a couple of decent thoughtful side by side, hand-in-hand, and I paragraphs compiled by a lady who tell you, that simple fact (the very quickly turned into the holding of hands) is the one thing greatest love I would ever know. that I miss the most. 4
