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On a flight home, a stranger helped her understand what came next

NPR
Published June 16, 2026 at 2:21 PM MDT

Rebecca Simonitsch had just learned she might be a candidate for brain surgery. The man seated beside her on the flight home pulled out a notebook to explain what lay ahead.

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