After that, I could almost guess. I saw her looking at me and smiled and said, "As you can imagine, my mother is too old and worn out to provide bone marrow to my brother, let alone my father. He didn't think of us as his own children for so many years."

"Are you pregnant?" I can basically guess, if not as a last resort, I think their family would not have the face to ask Linda again.

She nodded. "Well, I was facing a career bottleneck. It was also a question of whether the children could afford it, not to mention bone marrow extraction. So later my mother went...