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

“So I’m not her only chance.”

“No ethical donor evaluation should be presented to you that way.”

I started crying.

Not because I wanted an excuse to refuse.

Because someone had finally removed a six-year-old girl’s entire survival from my shoulders.

PART 28 — I CONTINUE

More testing.

Physical examination.

Blood counts.

Infectious disease screening.