The Department of Lost & Found
“Time does a funny thing to you. Sometimes, it goes so slowly, like in your senior year in high school when all you want to do is press the fast-forward button and get out, that it’s almost excruciating. And sometimes, like when Jake and I were resting in bed, listening to each other’s heartbeats, it was as if gravity had taken hold and no matter how hard you tried to hang on, it roared past; you’d do anything to get it back. Sally had come with me. My father was receiving an award in Australia ...for a bridge his company designed and my mother was with him. The plans had been made long before my diagnosis, so Sally was my next best option. “This is such a big honor,” Mom had explained on the phone when I mentioned that Australia seemed like an awfully long way away from Sloan-Kettering. “You dad would be terribly disappointed.” I snorted and wondered if my dad had any say in the matter to begin with. “Mom, I just . . . what if something goes wrong? You’ll be halfway around the world.”MoreLess
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