I Woke After 11 Days and Found My 9-Year-Old Grandson Asleep Beside My Hospital Bed—Then He Whispered, “Pretend You’re Still in a Coma”

Clair de Lune.

I arrived during the bow because David’s baseball game ran late.

Seventeen.

Rejected from her first-choice college.

I told her:

“Maybe if you worked as hard as David does.”

I remembered the sentence now.

I wished I didn’t.