I Turned My Back to the Flames
With a visit.
With a phone call that asked how your day was and waited for the answer.
With somebody, anybody, walking into the room and being glad to see you.
It was the cheapest medicine in the world and the hardest to come by, and the people who needed it most were, so often, the ones whose families had decided they were too busy to dispense it.
Chapter 3 — The Son Who Rarely Came