ROSIE

I was working the morning shift at the coffee shop, like I usually did every second week, and there weren’t a lot of people to serve. I was standing by the counter thinking about my sister, Rachel, who was at home being checked on now and then by our neighbour, Miss Nellie.

Rachel was ill from the moment she breathed her first breath. And the one question I always wanted answered was why. Why her? She was the most full of life person I’d ever known and yet she had such a short life expectancy. But Rachel had defeated the odds and survived years longer than she was supposed to. Knowing that, that I had her here on borrowed time, made me more desperate to spend every minute with her, giving her exactly what she wanted and making her happy for as long as...

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