Fifty-One Hours
You had been on a ventilator.
You had a living son upstairs who was going to need a mother for the next eighteen years.
“And there was a decision to be made that could not be unmade, in a room, that day.
“Thea, I have watched a great many people be given a thing they could not carry at a moment when they could not carry it.
That is most of what a principal actually does.