Title: A Lifetime of Style

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Chapter 27: Depression

Rob takes a semester-long leave of absence. He's too grief-stricken to care that he won't be graduating in May with his friends.

He spends the first month wandering around the house like a zombie. Ryan starts coming home a lot more often. Kyle comforts Rob as much as he can, and Stan cooks a lot. However, neither of the three know how to help.

Rob regains some sense of life in March, and happiness starts to return to the Marsh-Broflovski household. The joy is short-lived, however, when Shelly calls to tell them that Sharon lost her battle with Stage 4 breast cancer.

It dawns on Stan during the funeral that he and Shelly are the only surviving Marshes. When it's time to figure out how to handle the assets, Stan and Shelly decide it's best that she rent the house out to a struggling family that she knows really needs a place to live. Other assets are either split equally or given away.

Ryan graduates from Georgetown with the highest GPA in his class and is informed a week later that he will be attending Johns Hopkins on a full ride.

Rob goes back to NYU for summer classes and graduates in August with high honors in the business program.

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