And he’d asked Cassidy to help protect him from his parents. His wealthy, healthy, loving parents. s**t!
You were born by C-section. There was an infection. Then other things went wrong. We thought they were treated, but some damage was done, something not removed entirely or… We never knew. When the ovarian cancer struck, it took her so fast I barely had a chance to say goodbye.
I always told you she was called to the hospital and killed on the way. It was almost that fast, but that wasn’t what happened.
She wasn’t a nurse, though she nursed my heart after Vietnam, and you and her parents. She was a nurse of the heart, the gentlest soul I’ve ever known. I didn’t know she’d never come home when I took her away that last time. Truth of truths, maybe I didn’t ever really say goodbye. I st
