My beautiful partner, Daniel Dickey, of almost 35 years passed away early Sunday morning (May 17th) after a seven-month battle with metastatic stage 4 cancer. He was a real “trooper” enduring four surgeries and many rounds of chemotherapy during this ordeal. Close friends and family knew about his struggle with this dreadful disease but being a very private person, he didn’t want me to put anything on social media till he was gone. After the first several rounds of chemotherapy, he felt well enough for us to take a trip to Honolulu to visit family and friends. I know he loved seeing his Hawaii ‘Ohana and they loved seeing him as well. For much of his life he was an outstanding orchid grower winning many prizes and getting one of his prized plants on the cover of the “Awards Quarterly of the American Orchid Society”. The photo shows Danny doing one of the things he loved most in life – working in the yard on his landscaping. I am devastated and my heart is broken.