“I tried to convince myself that he was turning her into a spectacle,” she whispered.
“But listen to her, Diane. He’s giving her back to herself,” I replied.
Her voice cracked.
“I can hear it now.”
She pushed the door open, and I held my breath as I stepped through.
I stepped inside and froze.
Aaron sat beside Lily’s bed, both of them laughing so hard that she was holding her stomach. And behind him, lined up in the hallway like some impossible parade, were a dozen boys with freshly shaved heads.
It was the whole soccer team, two of Aaron’s teachers, and even the young hospital chaplain, rubbing his bare scalp and grinning!
“Come see, come see,” Nurse Maria called, signaling to me as she lifted her phone.
She’d been filming the whole thing.
***
In the clip, one by one, they popped into the room.
