The night my pager screamed, it didn’t just wake me up. It dragged me back into a life I’d been written out of, a family scrapbook where my face had been carefully cut away. Under hospital lights, I read my sister’s name and realized the person who’d erased me now needed my hands to live. My parents waited down the hall, believing I was a ghost. Monica had made sure of tha… Continues…
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