Nancy

I could enter my friend's room an hour after his parents had left. Because of hospital rules and policies, they couldn't allow too many people in one room. The maximum was two people at a time. Mrs. Kim and Mr. Francis stayed outside the room, sitting on the bench with my father. Mrs. Kim had a nervous breakdown and started crying uncontrollably when she left the room. I guessed that seeing her son in that bed, all injured, must have been the most difficult thing she had ever seen in her life. And why wouldn't she... she loved him with all her heart. Kim gave me the sign to...