Their hopeful endeavor was cut short, however, when Lima was diagnosed with stage 4 adrenal cancer in October 2017 and had to have a kidney removed.
"It's devastating news," Fischetti said in a YouTube video, "but at the same time, there's nobody I know stronger than Devin Lima. No one has a stronger body, mind, or soul, and if anybody can defeat this, it's Devin." He noted that the disease his buddy had was "really rare," a "one-in-a-million cancer."
Lima died Nov. 21, 2018, at the age of 41.
"Devin, as the world knows him, was an extraordinary talent, a doting father to his six children, and a loving partner to their mother," Fischetti said in a statement. "He was a beloved son and brother and a friend to so many."
He also revealed that, a few days before Lima died, "he said to me, 'Bro, when it's over, just tell them I disappeared.' My friends—Harold ''Devin' Lima has disappeared."
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