When I Was Four, My Mother Left Me Alone in a Church—Twenty Years Later She Returned Crying, “We Need You”

“It means Hannah’s transplant physicians want to evaluate you further.”

Not:

You’re the miracle.

Not:

Only you can save her.

Potentially useful.

Medicine was less dramatic than my mother.

I liked medicine better.

PART 26 — WHY NOT LEO?

I asked.