“You must understand that you may lose it anyway. There’s no way of knowing for sure it’s the M.S. that’s causing it, or if it will last.”
“I know. I’ve thought about all that. It’s frightening.” She shivered, then shook it off, and smiled. “But I’ll take every minute of it that I can get. I feel alive now, like I never did before.”
“I know.” Tyler smiled back. “I can see it.”
I could see it too, ever so clearly. She can’t feel love, Johnny had said, but she tries. And now that she could feel, she was alive with feeling, glowing with it. Unlike so many others. Most people can feel it, Johnny had continued, but they don’t.
They just don’t.
Tyler and Lilly were talking animatedly. I slipped out of the room and walked away, alone in the crowded corridors of the hospital.