My mother showed up 100 percent all day every day for me growing up, or at least it seemed that way. “I know that me being here for her is the best gift I can give her,” wrote the ailing mom on Facebook upon her release, “but right now, it feels like settling since she’s getting a half-life version of myself. Only a few weeks earlier, she had celebrated - as best one could under the circumstances - being released from the hospital in time to spend Mother’s Day with Coda, her two-year-old daughter with husband Zack Robidas. “How,” she asked, “can there be such a fine line between life and death?” Sadly, that story has come to an end: Schulenburg has passed away at the age of 37. Hers was a tale of darkness and light, sadness and laughter, sorrow and hope. “On the eve of my 36th birthday,” she wrote, “instead of searching for a place to drink multiple Bloody Marys (my birthdays always involve Bloody Marys, boats and lobster, not in any particular order), I was repeating the same question over and over again in my head: “How does one celebrate a birthday with a new baby in the middle of a global pandemic while coming to terms with a Stage IV, metastatic, borderline triple negative inflammatory breast cancer diagnosis?” It proved to be one that no interview could capture, and it began with this paragraph, which was heartbreaking and yet somehow humorous in equal measure: What followed was several weeks in which she wrote and rewrote her own unique story. Rather than be interviewed, the actress wanted the opportunity to use her own words to try and help others. In November of 2020, Marnie Schulenburg - whom I’d met briefly years earlier when she was playing As The World Turns‘ Alison - approached us with a pitch. “I want to be able to tell my own story.”
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