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<p>Maple: /* Explanation */</p> <hr /> <div>{{comic<br /> | number = 1141<br /> | date = November 30, 2012<br /> | title = Two Years<br /> | image = two years.png<br /> | imagesize = <br /> | titletext = She won the first half of all our chemo Scrabble games, but then her IV drugs started kicking in and I *dominated*.<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Explanation==<br /> This comic marks the second year of [[Randall Munroe]]'s wife's long [[Emotion|battle with cancer]].<br /> <br /> {{w|Scrabble}}, as referenced in the title text, is a very popular board game in which players use letter times to spell words in a cross-word style, as is the game being played in the fifth frame. In the third to final frame, Randall is paraphrasing a line from the song &quot;{{w|Still Alive}}&quot; from the video game ''{{w|Portal}}'' (''&quot;I'm doing Science and I'm still alive&quot;'').<br /> <br /> A link to a You Tube video of Still Alive [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_S0PGu-cH4]<br /> <br /> ==Transcript==<br /> :[Randall and his wife sitting on a bed and on the phone with a nurse.]<br /> :Randall's wife: oh god<br /> <br /> :[Randall and his wife sitting at their laptops. Randall's wife is hooked up to a dialysis machine and her hair is shaved.]<br /> :Machine: ...BEEEP...BEEEP...BEEEP...<br /> <br /> :[Randall and his wife rowing. His wife is wearing a beanie.]<br /> <br /> :[Randall and his wife sitting at a table. A clock is mounted behind them.]<br /> :Randall's wife: How long can it take to read a scan!?<br /> <br /> :[Randall and his wife playing scrabble.]<br /> :Randall: &quot;Zarg&quot; isn't a word.<br /> :Randall's wife: But ''Caaancer''.<br /> :Randall: ...Ok, fine.<br /> <br /> :[Randall and his wife talking to a friend. A large thought bubble is above their heads.]<br /> :Friend: So next year you should come visit us up in the mountain - [cut off by thought bubble]<br /> :Randall and wife: &quot;Next year&quot;<br /> <br /> :[Randall and his wife getting married. A heart is above their heads. His wife's hair is growing back.]<br /> <br /> :[Randall and his wife watching a whale jump out of the water.]<br /> <br /> :[Randall watching his wife use a laptop.]<br /> :Randall: Hey-<br /> :Randall: You're doing science,<br /> :Randall: And you're still alive.<br /> :Randall's wife: Yeah!<br /> <br /> :[Randall and his wife under a tree.]<br /> :Randall: It's only been two years?<br /> :Randall's wife: They were big years.<br /> <br /> :[Randall and his wife at a fancy restaurant being served.]<br /> :Waiter: Happy... Anniversary?<br /> :Randall's wife: Biopsy-versary!<br /> :Waiter: ...eww.<br /> <br /> {{comic discussion}}<br /> [[Category:Comics featuring Randall Munroe]]<br /> [[Category:Cancer]]</div>

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