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2024 Year In Review

6 min readDec 23, 2024

Allyson is usually the one who writes our family’s year in review with Christmas cards. As she is no longer with us, it’s up to me this year. Instead of traditionally mailing out Christmas cards, I’ll write our 2024 here and post to family and friends on social media. Hope you don’t mind.

Spring

Our 2024 started like the previous year. Allyson had lots of chemo therapy and doctor appointments for her Ovarian Cancer. Jack came back to visit during Taiwan’s Lunar New Year break. Allyson’s mom Joann came to visit at the same time.

Her favorite hotpot for Valentines Day

Allyson went to the Portland Pokemon Regionals in January and the Vancouver Regionals in March.

Alex was busy with Model United Nations, where he attended debates in February and April, and won Best Delegate.

Summer

Allyson’s summer started with Alex attending the Naval Academy’s Summer Seminar in Annapolis, Maryland. Her parents drove down to see them and took Allyson back to New Jersey for a visit. Allyson got to…

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William Wen
William Wen

Written by William Wen

25 years in tech | 13 years @ Google | Tesla Investor since 2013 | www.linkedin.com/in/wil-wen | twitter.com/wilwen2

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