For those of you who have not heard, including friends of mine who don’t even know but have been praying for the family, little Allison Sunaoka passed away today at the age of 19 days. She put up a good fight for her life but has now gone to join her identical twin, Rory.
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Huge congrats to my high school buddy Scott and his wife, Keao, on the birth of their triplets two weeks ago! The girls were born very early, and unfortunately, one of them had a heart condition and didn’t survive very long after birth, but Allison (the one whose water broke and started the whole emergency) [...]

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Allis, me and Bob at Sam Choy’s, March 2009.
Just heard that my friend Bob Sega succumbed to cancer today. Bob had been living with cancer for quite some time now, but he was such a warrior. Bob rode his bike in countless races to raise funds for the Lance Armstrong Foundation and to raise awareness [...]

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I just saw in the Honolulu Advertiser online that my friend Chris Pablo died today. While Chris eventually succumbed to cancer (two diagnoses in 18 months), one wouldn’t dare call him a “victim.”
About 14 years ago, Chris was diagnosed with CML: chronic myelogenous leukemia. He needed – and, fortunately, received – a bone marrow transplant. [...]

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My friend and hairdresser, Hillary, is crazy. Evidence: Who the eff puts this much wasabi in their shoyu?

She has also determined that it would be more economical to eat Cap’n Crunch at a frogurt bar than it is to buy it in the box. Not that anybody would actually do this or anything . . [...]

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