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After Dani left, it was just Levi, Harper and me in the room. It felt exactly like it had for the past several days, except now, Harper was back! She’d been asleep since that brief, initial, lucid moment when Levi and I returned, but the doctors assured us it was normal for her to be overly tired. It didn’t make sense, since she’d been doing nothing but resting, but I was happy to let her body take all the time it needed––as long as she eventually came back to us.
I fussed around the room, adjusting her blankets, getting fresh water for her flowers, and changing into dry clothes. I wanted everything to be perfect any time she was awake.
Levi sat in the chair beside the bed staring at Harper as if he couldn’t quite believe she was real. I couldn’t begin to imagine the shock he mu
