At Prom Only One Boy Asked Me to Dance and Thirty Years Later Our Paths Crossed Again

that and tried not to add more to it than it was.

She carried it anyway.

The rehabilitation was long and honest and uncinematic. She learned to transfer from the chair without assistance. She learned to walk short distances with braces and eventually longer ones without them. She learned, more slowly than any of the physical skills, that the people around continue reading …