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

of realizing that she had not been protected from difficult news by someone else’s failure to communicate. She had been protected from difficult news by her own son’s willingness to withhold it, and, if she was honest, by her own willingness not to ask too many questions about a daughter who had always been more convenient at a distance.

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