Are You Alive (Young, Brilliant, and Wrong: Part 12)

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Coming Up Together with Ash

For better or for worse, my last text to Ash was “are you alive.” He responded, “text my family.” I told my husband, “I think Ash is dying.” “Do you want to call him?” “I feel like he doesn’t want to talk or he’d call me. He didn’t want to talk last time either.” I texted his family. The next day, I got a text from his family while boarding a flight. I was flying solo while juggling a car seat and two suitcases with my baby strapped to me. Reading the text, my whole chest and face went numb. I nuzzled my baby, smelling his sweet scalp, feeling how alive and happy he was. As of this…

Are You Alive (Young, Brilliant, and Wrong: Part 12)

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