Four Weekends and a Funeral

by Ellie Palmer

“A life-altering diagnosis should alter you. I shouldn’t go ‘back to normal’ after this. I have to make my life mean something.”

“You’re kind of my favorite new person, if that’s not too weird a thing to say.”

“I imagine your every detail. Constantly. God, imagine the things I could accomplish if I could think about anything other than you: my favorite person.”

I’m just me—literal scars and all—and he’s looking at me like I’m enough. Like I’m everything.