Do you want to let her go? That’s how they asked it. Thought it was tactful, I reckon. Better than Do you want to pull the plug? or Should we let her die now? It was just a matter of words, I knew that. But when they asked it that way—Do you want to let her go now?—how could I answer anything other than No! I’m not ready! I’ll never be able to let her go, she’s my wife! So that’s what I answered, over and over. Until a doctor with a calm, gentle voice told me it was time. That she wasn’t coming back. She wasn’t going to get better. She’d lived a good, long life and part of a good, long life,
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