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Levi
I tried to focus on what the petite, weary-looking doctor was saying, but I didn’t understand most of the words that were coming out of her mouth. She tossed frightening words like subdural hematoma and craniotomy out at us as if they should make sense to my muddled brain.
All three of us stared at her with wide eyes as she spoke, sharing the worst news any of us had ever received. Although much of what she said went over my head, I believed the gist of her speech to be that Harper had suffered a traumatic brain injury and that she was in a coma.
“How long?” Meg’s voice came out sounding strained when she stared at the doctor with terrified eyes and asked the one question that we were all wondering the answer to.
“That, we just don’t know.” The doctor removed her New England Pa
