My Family Ignored Me In The Hospital Until My Mother Saw My Name On The Pediatric Wing

because I believed that families with sick children deserved a space that felt less frightening than a hospital usually does.” I let that sit for a moment. “I built that for strangers. And I nearly died in it without one person from my own family walking through the front door.”

My mother made a sound that was less a word than a collapse of sound.

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