Some people will try to erase you — not with strangers, but with people who know your name, who sat at your table, who learned exactly where you were vulnerable and filed that information away for later.
Some families carry love like a gift. And some carry it like a debt they intend to collect.
But sometimes, in the middle of the very worst thing — in a locked hospital room, in the dark, in the place where you cannot move or speak or protect the people you love — a child’s voice reaches through the silence.
And a hand moves.
And a mother comes back.
Emily’s story is one that will stay with you long after you finish reading it — about betrayal by the people closest to you, and about the extraordinary courage of a child who refused to give up. We’d love to hear what this story meant to you in the comments on the Facebook video. And if it moved you, please share it with your friends and family — sometimes the most important thing we can do is make sure the right people hear the right story at the right time.
