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Quietly because, well, to spend time with Jade McCann,
Which is, of course, one way – the best way – to face death; living each day as though there’s no tomorrow.
So, today, on a wet Monday, down in The Beach House, Jade McCann is shining bright. Sure, she’s just on her way home from another regular visit to St Vincent’s, and has begun to settle into hibernation mode for Christmas, but the positive
According to Jade, she gets that from her dad, Anthony, who, as horrible luck would have it, was diagnosed with prostate cancer just three weeks before his daughter got her bad news. “My mum, Kim, has been amazing too,” says Jade. “And my boyfriend, Bren, is there every single day for me.

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very now and then, when you’re talking to Jade McCann, you have to stop and remind yourself that this bright young girl is dealing with incredibly dark and
increasingly difficult days.
you’d never guess the girl was ill. Perhaps it’s that big smile, perhaps it’s the constant joking, or just the calm way that she lists off the details of her Stage 4 sarcoma cancer, but, Jade McCann has an undeniable lust for life.
For, as it will for each and every one of us, who knows when that old truism will finally come true.
energy emanating from this vibrant girl is powerful enough to light up a thousand Christmas trees.
So, I’m very, very lucky…”
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Thanks Jade for giving this extraordinary interview with such openness, strength, vulnerability, love and passion and thanks Paul for bringing it to us. Also, I wouldn’t have believed it possible to love The Parting Glass more that I did until I heard Jade sing it. Blown away.