Do not carry it alone.

Come out of the dark and let the people who love you carry it with you.

That was the whole of it.

That was everything.

Chapter 24 — The Dogwood, Years On

Some years have passed now since Marcus left us, and on a bright autumn afternoon not long ago, I went back to the hospital, to the place where all of it began.

The building had grown and changed over the years, new wings and gleaming additions, the way hospitals do.