Cindy and I had talked about visiting each other and meeting the other’s kids since Apollo was born. Between different coasts, overlapping pregnancies, losing my mom, me going back to work, then Cindy getting sick, it took four years before I went to see her last year. Then, Cindy and Matt came to visit us in NYC this past September a bit over a month ago. Of course, my twins loved her.

So, I’m going to share how I met Cindy. Cindy was at AOL with my brother, Philip Kim. He often talked about his “kooky” friend and how talented she was a designer, which says a lot. He rarely spoke of others in such warm and glowing terms. In 2006, we found out that my brother had MDS, which bloomed into leukemia. He was treated at the NIH because the only way to save him was to do a stem cell transplant and….