“I’ll always protect you from the monsters,” I say.
“But what if you’re not there?”
“I will always be there. Always.”
She knows I’m not lying. But she knows that can’t be true.
I scramble. “I’ll show you how to protect yourself from the monsters, just until I get there.”
Is that right? That doesn’t sound right.
Her eyes are big and beautiful, even though they look like mine.
“Good night, daddy.”
“Don’t worry, bébita, I’ll be there. Papa t’aime.”
“I love you too, daddy.”
I will always protect her from the monsters.
But what if I’m not there?
About the Creator
Reaching Out
I promise her. I'd do anything for her. She's my mom. Even as Lanie and Deanna are flying home, Mom is scrappy fighting dying. She lays too still in that too-big bed with all the toasty white hospital blankets, in the south tower, at the broad end of a long slow-turning corner that delivers me again to her private room with the view she can't see through, with the beeping that tells us nothing new, and all these ice chips she can't swallow, and a flood of well-intentioned nurses who cannot do a damned thing all the same.
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