May 10, 2021 By Suleika Jaouad Ms. Jaouad is the author of the memoir âBetween Two Kingdoms,â where she writes about her friendship with Quintin Jones. In 2012 and 2013, she chronicled her experience with cancer in The Times. My world had narrowed to a tiny, white-walled, fluorescent-lit hospital room in New York in 2012. I was 23 and enduring a seemingly hopeless struggle with leukemia, and I had spent much of the previous year in medical isolation, at times too sick to speak. Iâd never felt so alone. Thatâs when I got my first letter from a man in Texas named Quintin Phillippe Jones, Quin for short. Heâd read an essay Iâd written