Sophie shrugged.
“My daughter.”
She smiled.
“That’s it?”
Daniel kissed the top of her head.
“That’s everything.”
As Sophie grew older, we told her more about her condition. We never wanted her to discover the truth from another child or from something she found online.
Child Care
By thirteen, she understood that her life might be shorter than most people’s.
One evening, she asked us the question Daniel had feared since the day of her diagnosis.
“Am I going to die young?”
Daniel’s hand tightened around mine.
