Patty was a long-time member of our support group for young metastatic women, Mets in the City. Although I joined the group after Patty had moved to LA, we met at a retreat at Commonweal. I quickly saw Patty's kind and generous spirit. When one of the women at the retreat, Patty's best friend, Rosa, became sicker, Patty came up to the Bay Area for two weeks to care for her and her family. The picture below is taken at a Commonweal reunion lunch we had shortly before Rosa died. I kept in touch with Patty after that and she gave me good advice on a film project I was working on. When I last communicated with her in April I thought she was turning the corner and getting better. I was heartbroken to hear recently that she died in June. See you on the other side, Patty!