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Dale Gilsdorf meditates in the burned out trunk of a cedar tree.



Dale undergoes an MRI scan at South Sound Radiology to diagnose the progression of his brain tumors.



Dale's radiologist views the new scans, which reveal new metastatic brain tumors.



In Dr. Horton's cramped exam room, Bonnie and Dale absorb the results of the latest MRI scan.



Dale listens carefully as Dr. Horton discusses the limited therapy options.



Dale sorts through his mounting bills and medical papers, struggling to keep them organized.



On Dale's 59th birthday, he was presented with a dinosaur birthday cake and serenaded by Bonnie, Nicolle and Renée.



Dale carefully composes his obituary in his upstairs office. "I don't mind writing this obituary.<br/>I feel like I'm writing a report. I'd like to believe it won't see print for a good while."



In the guiding crosshairs of aiming lasers, Dale's brain tumors will be reduced by radiation.<br/>At Olympia Radiology's linear accelerator, his daily dose is 200 centigray.



Dale and Bonnie stroll along the beach below Dale's house. They have been together for two years, since shortly before Dale's diagnosis.<br/>At that time Dale cautioned Bonnie, " You're a 38-year old woman with two kids. I'm a dying man."



"She believes I can defy the statistics, that I can survive," Dale says of Bonnie.



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