It’s Worth Complimenting People Before They Die (or Move Wards)

Don’t be too cool to show people you care

Alexander J. Porter
Long. Sweet. Valuable.
4 min readApr 24, 2024

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I had the coolest nurse during chemotherapy.

Technically, I had forty of them. But this one was the best.

She had tortoise-shell glasses, compassion coming out of her ears, and was — objectively — unfairly attractive. Even when I was…

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Alexander J. Porter
Long. Sweet. Valuable.

Life advice (that doesn't suck) from a leukemia survivor. Grab a fresh perspective with none of the chemo. If your star sign is Cancer, we can't be friends. ✨