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he coughed, that wet rattle I had learned to dread.
“Seriously though. These are beautiful. Made the nurses cry. Tell him thank you.”
“I’ll tell him to stop.”
But I did not.
Not right away.
Because hearing Danny smile—really smile, not the brave hospital smile he wore for doctors—made something in my chest crack open.
That evening, I was working my second continue reading …
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