Harry And Rachel Part 2: When True Love Dies
3/26/202634 min
For 563 days, Harry believed the love of his life was dying of stage-four cancer. Then Rachel’s husband called, and everything Harry thought he knew collapsed. A pattern emerges, revealing a woman he no longer recognizes and a trail of emotional wreckage stretching back decades.
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First 90 secondsHarry· Guest0:00
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Brandi Churchwell0:12
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Harry· Guest0:12
Oh.
Josh Dean· Host0:13
[laughs] [beep] Last week on Chameleon, we heard part one of Harry and Rachel, the story of a hopeless romantic and a woman who just keeps stringing him along. This woman, Rachel, got sick. [gentle music] Some old cancer had recurred, and she wanted to see Harry in Santa Barbara, a town that had some history for them. The emotional night culminated in an embrace.
Harry· Guest0:36
That night, we go back to the room, and as we're laying down together, she hugged me in a way that I have never been hugged by anyone. It was like we were head to head, nose to nose, and she had me by the back of the head, and she would not let me go. And I could feel tears on her face, and I could feel her kinda shaking, and she wouldn't let me go. And I tried to, like, gently ease her away and say, "What's going on?" And I thought she was just afraid of cancer. I thought she was afraid she was gonna die and never see me.
Josh Dean· Host1:10
After the hug, after that happy but sad reunion or whatever it was, Harry went back home to Vegas. He was confused and just really worried. Those worries were affirmed on June 5th, when Rachel told him that her health was slipping fast. She'd exhibited signs of a