The Day My Daughter Told the Doctor to Let Me Go While I Lay There Unable to Speak

the state legislature in 1994, when I was forty and convinced that if I only explained the research clearly enough, the funding would follow. It was the suit I wore when I needed to look like someone who knew what she was saying and intended to stand behind it.

Claire looked thinner when I saw her across the courtroom. Not from grief. Stress does a continue reading …