Epilogue
11 years later
I had to admit this was a trip I was not looking forward to taking.
I was busy and stressed, but so were Prayikina and Kintaro. Someone had to accompany their not-so-little Joey on the transpacific flight. I would have loved to stay home with my baby.
Well, she wasn’t a baby exactly. Not anymore. My daughter Lucy had just turned five. Maybe that’s why I was on this flight; I needed a break from California and the absolute hell that had been the last six years of my life.
It all started when Jamie got sick. At first, it was cold, then the flu. San Francisco could be a chilly place, so this wasn’t out of the ordinary, but he never got better. It took several weeks of tests to find the actual cause of his compromised immune system: Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
I assumed I
