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?”
I will not turn that ward into a tour.
Families who have sat those chairs already know the sound.
Families who have not do not need it.
Julian was in college then.
He came home with a duffel and a silence that never fully unpacked.
He hated needles after that, not as a quirk, as a border.