My Parents Abandoned Me During Cancer Then Showed Up at My Graduation Like They Had Earned My Success

first. That mattered later.

At the time, I only knew that he had said leukemia, and that the room seemed to tilt.

It is the most common type of childhood cancer, he continued. With aggressive chemotherapy, Emily’s survival rate is around eighty-five to ninety percent.

I heard good odds. I heard treatable. I heard the possibility that somebody might still continue reading …