Karen shook her head. “I’m with Tom. If I could cure David, I would, for David. But I think that we’ve grown so much as a result of having to deal with this. We’ve had so much purpose. I’d never have believed twenty-three years ago when he was born that I could come to such a point, but I have. For David, I’d cure it in an instant; but for us, I wouldn’t exchange these experiences for anything. They’ve made us who we are, and who we are is so much better than who we would have been otherwise.”
