An Elderly Woman Warned Me Not To Touch The Snow—The Next Morning, I Understood Why

endured the tests, the hopes, the monthly grief. Vernon had attended exactly two appointments, then stopped coming, and when I asked why, he said he didn’t see the point in sitting in waiting rooms when there was work to be done. I told myself that was his way of coping. I told myself a lot of things.

Maybe the distance started with my illness three continue reading …