It’s remarkable, really. Change one letter and you change an entire word. By taking an “s” and replacing it with a “d” – a fraction of an inch distance on my keyboard – I can get rid of the horrible sentence “My buddy Jason has cancer” and, now that his surgery is done and the pathology report is entirely clear and all that remains is a lifetime of periodic monitoring to make sure, replace it with “My buddy Jason had cancer.” Changes everything.

It was a really good July. Congratulations, little buddy. I could not be more happy for you.