Valerie Came Home From Deployment to Find Her Twelve-Year-Old Daughter in Intensive Care
Her fingers moved.
One squeeze.
Then a second squeeze, clear and deliberate.
Dr.
Ortega’s pen stopped above the page.
“Do that again,” he said.
I asked her again, and she did it again.
Two quick pressures against my palm.
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