MY PARENTS WALKED AWAY FROM ME AT THE HOSPITAL WHEN I WAS 13 — MY MOTHER WENT PALE WHEN THE DEAN CALLED MY NAME

abandon him?” The question escaped before I could stop it.

“God, no. My whole family rallied around him. My parents went broke paying for things insurance didn’t cover, and they never once complained. That’s what parents do, Sarah. Real parents.”

Throughout the next month, as I endured induction chemotherapy, Rachel became much more than my nurse. She continue reading …