When my best friend was diagnosed with terminal cancer, I confessed my feelings and promised to be with her until the end. Then all hell broke loose. An excerpt from ‘All the Way to the River’ by Elizabeth Gilbert.

On April 25, 2016, I got a phone call from Rayya. Are you sitting down? she asked, just like people do in the movies. I sat down. They found tumors, she said. Lots of them. Not just in my liver. In m…