Love found through a common affliction.

In some of my sickest days, one of my brothers used to joke that he was certain I was spending all of my time in the hospital searching for my own McDreamy. That always made me laugh. Turns out — an internet entrepreneur named Ricky Durham is not far off that idea with his site Prescription4Love.com.

“Finding somebody similar to you in terms of having that personal disease history, understanding what it means to you psychologically and physically, can have a very comforting effect... A shared disease can bridge a very big gap...” said Dr. Suzanne Miller, a clinical psychologist and director of behavioral medicine at Philadelphia’s Fox Chase Cancer Center.

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