My Friend Faked Cancer and I Believed Him

What does that say about me?

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I’d been friends with him for over twenty years. On the odd occasion, more than friends. So when he — let’s call him B — told me he had pancreatic cancer, yeah, I was shocked. Devastated. But even back then there was a tiny portion of disbelief.

Really? You don’t look sick.