The doors swing wide, and I’m wheeled through. My neck cranes back, desperate for one final glimpse. Blair crumples. His knees hit the floor hard, and a sound tears from him. It’s animal grief, a guttural scream that shatters the air on its way out. He folds into himself in the hallway, shattering the way he must have shattered before, in some other corridor, when Cody disappeared behind doors that never opened again. Dad drops beside him and wraps his arms around Blair, and Blair collapses into the shelter of my father’s arms. They rock together on that cold hospital floor, my dad’s hand
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