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His vibrato is disciplined and finely grained; when he moves up and down the neck, the motion is smooth as a jet plane lifting into altitude.

Allison Powell and her husband had been living since September in a Sonder apartment in lower Manhattan while he received treatment for head and neck cancer.

Last year, she found a lump in her neck and was diagnosed with Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare and aggressive skin cancer.

He had toiled at car washes the whole time — crouching to scrub tires, stretching to dry roofs and returning home each night with aching heels and knots in his neck.

"Having that many scrums wasn't pleasing on the neck, but they are a quality side with a quality pack," he said.