Lily's Last Breath, A Marriage's End

911 operator, my three-year-old daughter, Lily, gasping for air

on," I choked out. "She

a low, intimate murmur, oblivious to Lily' s agony. She was talkin

Get off the damn phone!" She flinched, looking at me with annoy

led her eyes dismissively. "You' re overreacting, Et

d, it was too late. Dr. Evans, his eyes weary, delive

." But her words sliced me like knives. "What are you talking about? Gone where

hanging up to celebrate Leo' s transplant. When her parents, John and Mary, arrived, they scrolled through Sar

rous. A horrible suspicion began to dawn: was this more than