“Why didn’t you just talk to me? After the accident, why didn’t you reach out normally instead of . . . watching from afar?” “I tried, at first. I visited you in the hospital, but you were still in and out of consciousness. By the time you were lucid, I . . . I didn’t know how to explain why I felt so connected to you. I was afraid you’d think I was crazy, or worse, that you’d reject me.”
