The call from the Miami hospital replayed in my mind the entire flight. When I arrived, a doctor met me in the waiting room and explained that Sarah had collapsed after trying to ignore a serious medical condition for months.
The red stain I had seen that morning wasn’t what I had feared—it was the first visible sign of internal bleeding caused by a rare illness she had been secretly battling. She had hidden the truth because she didn’t want me pulled back into a life she believed I had already left behind.
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