5/13/2023 0 Comments Die Young with Me by Rob Rufus![]() ![]() ![]() Somebody liked it, some guy I'd never heard of called Rob Rufus, and in his profile was promotional material for a book he had written about his own experience with a rare cancer. I posted a picture to instagram to celebrate, one of my hashtags was #cancer. Yesterday was my last day of chemotherapy for Hodgkin's lymphoma, a rare "young people only" cancer that attacks the lymph nodes and blood system of the body. But as Rob’s life diverges from his brother’s, he learns to find strength within himself and through his music. While Rob suffers through nightmarish treatments and debilitating surgery, Nat continues on their band’s road to success alone. ![]() Not only are his dreams of punk rock stardom completely shredded, there is a very real threat that this is one battle that can’t be won. When the brothers start their own band, their lives begin to change: they meet friends, they attract girls, and they finally get invited to join a national tour and get out of their rat box little town.īut their plans are cut short when Rob is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that has already progressed to Stage Four. But what can you expect when you’re the only punks in town? To them, school (and pretty much everything else) sucks. In fact, it blares constantly from the basement of Rob and Nat Rufus-identical twin brothers with spiked hair, black leather jackets, and the most kick-ass record collection in Appalachia. The true story of a teenager diagnosed with cancer and how music was the one thing that helped him get through his darkest days. ![]()
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