My Only Son Donated a Kidney to a 5-Year-Old Girl. After He Died From Complications, Her Mother Came to My Door and Whispered, “He Never Told You the Real Reason Why He Saved Her, Did He?”
Mom,
If you’re reading this, it means my luck ran out, and the thing I’ve been running from caught up with me.
I am so sorry.
I know the pain of losing a child.
I watched you survive it when we lost Thomas, and it broke something in me I never learned to fix.
For years I believed love was only a setup for grief.