It was the summer of my 9th year when I was almost gone again. Days were spent running barefoot with my younger cousins, Tonya and Tara, in the field between my home and theirs. Kinky hair running wild or in slept on, half-undone plaits scattered over our heads because everyone over age 16 was too busy to comb it.
hypocritical
defining success
saving at all costs
Samuel Alexander is a 35 year-old man with active drug use that led to end-stage kidney disease. Recently he added endocarditis, an infection of a heart valve, to the list of things wrong with him. It’s hard to remember he is only 35 because when he talks, his lips pout and his jowls sag like an old man because he has no teeth.