he was afraid of what it would do to you. It was the only thing that scared him. And when he found out Lily needed a heart and his was healthy, he lit up. He said he’d finally figured out how to take care of you after he was gone.”
Lily was still in recovery that day — you don’t leave the hospital right after a transplant. But when she was strong enough, a few weeks later, I went to see her. And I want to tell you what it is to meet the girl who is carrying your dead son’s heart.
She had his letter memorized. She’d read her own copy so many times. And when I walked in, this eighteen-year-old girl who’d never met me started to cry, and she said, “He told me you’d come. He told me to take care of you until you were ready to
