The Sixteen Seconds
Her left leg is what it is.
She has a scar on the outside of the calf that she is entirely unbothered by and that she has told two separate adults a lie about, both times something involving a shark, both times to see what would happen.
She has had three surgeries.
There is probably one more coming around sixteen when she is done growing.
She takes a medication for nerve pain and she has a bad month about twice a year and Dr.
Prieto is on the phone within a day.