Jennifer Glass has always had an adventurous spirit.
In 1990, she left the United States and journeyed to Southeast Asia for several months of solo backpacking. Then, she migrated to rural Japan to teach English for two years before taking on three years of public relations work in Hong Kong – a city she still describes as “a place where anything could happen and [everything] was possible”.
Glass in October 2013, after her cancer treatment. Photo: Jennifer Glass
Eventually, Glass returned to the United States and settled in California. In late 2012, she was married to Harlan Seymour.
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And then, on January 5, 2013, only four months after her marriage, 50-year-old Glass was diagnosed with lung cancer.
“My particular type of cancer is non-small cell lung cancer, stage IIIB,” Glass says. “The American Cancer Society estimates a five-year survival rate of five per cent.”
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The day of her diagnosis, Glass asked her husband Harlan to document her cancer story by taking a photograph of her every single day for the next year.
