While it once proved fatal for children early on, cystic fibrosis is now much more manageable. The average life span for a person with CF reaches into the late 30s. There is no cure, but science is working on it, folks, and with our help I believe that in my son’s lifetime there ...
the symbol, and a whole whole whole lot more people exactly like me who looked over and saw a house on fire and didn’t do anything about it because they noticed that nobody else was doing anything about it.
Soon-ae sighs, probably to the both of them, “There’s no reason to live like this. We’re born once and die once—we should use what we want and do what we want! We should date, two-time, and three-time! We don’t know that if you save it up, it just turns to poop.”...
But she’d convinced herself that she’d never been hurt or jealous, because she believed that she was too strong to get hurt over such things. It’s clearly not true, but it’s how she’d gotten through high school. She hasn’t seen that Hae-young since she went off to college. ...
have to drive home every time we meet for our almost-every-other-month dinner dates. We started the call talking about serious stuff, like this new world we are living in and its impact on our lives, and ended with us laughing until our stomachs hurt about…well, I’m not entirely ...
My mom wanted my daughter (the 1st of her grandchildren) to call her Nana, but no matter how hard my mom tried to get her to call her Nana, my daughter called her MeMaw. And it has been MeMaw now for 12 years! One of the fondest memories of my grandmother is of my dad’s ...