Allowed to stop helping.

Allowed to dislike people she had once comforted.

I wrote that in my notebook.

Then crossed it out.

Some lessons should not become another list I managed for her.

PART 18 — DR.

GABLE FINALLY HAS AN ANSWER

Several days later, Dr.

Gable returned with better news.

The specialists had narrowed Madeline’s illness to a treatable inflammatory condition that had followed an infection weeks earlier.