My Parents Died Before Graduation and I Thought No One Would Be There for Me — Then Two Hands Covered My Eyes From Behind
“I had to,” I said, and I came and stood beside him.
“Mom and Dad were gone.
Grandma couldn’t walk to the pharmacy.
There wasn’t anybody else.
If I didn’t do it, Ethan, who was going to?” I did not say it to wound him.
But I watched it land in him anyway, the weight of that simple question, who was going to, and I watched my strong older brother’s eyes fill up as he looked down at the small terrible evidence of how alone I had been.
Chapter 15 — The Dog Tag
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