My Son Walked Across the Graduation Stage Wearing a Bright Red Dress While Hundreds of People Laughed. I Was the Only Person in the Auditorium Who Knew Why.

The illness arrived as bruises that did not match play, then as a tiredness that made the park too far.

I will not turn her treatment into a list.

Families who have sat in those chairs already know the fluorescent hours.

Families who have not do not need a tour.

What I will say is this: she remained herself as long as her body would let her.

The red dress went to appointments in a bag.