Then Cancer Struck. Both of Us.

The Crazy Story of a Couple’s Unexpected Double Diagnosis

Julio Vincent Gambuto
Human Parts
Published in
8 min readMar 26, 2024

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Photos by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash

It’s not a story you’ll believe. If I had pitched it to Hollywood, I would have gotten laughed out of the room for being ridiculous. In December, my fiancé was diagnosed with acute leukemia, at 38. (I wrote about it for Medium here.) We had just gotten engaged. After three years of Covid and finally seeing the…

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Julio Vincent Gambuto
Human Parts

Author + Moviemaker // Happiness in a fucked-up modern world // New book from Avid Reader Press (Simon & Schuster) // Audie Finalist // SXSW // juliovincent.com