Inside the waiting room, Grams was seated on the cushions she brought with her everywhere. Grandma Nance sat beside her, holding her hand. They were waiting for me and when I finally reached them Grandma Nance broke down in my arms. “Oh, Ethan, I’m so scared!” she sobbed while everyone around us was quiet. They knew how much time I spent with our grandparents, more than any of them now that none of us were children anymore. You turn into a teenager and all you want to do is hang out with kids your own age, and that happened to me, too. But after I graduated from M.I.T.
