ALMA

I should have been the one in that car. It should have been me who got hit. If that had happened, my world wouldn't be flipped over like this. It shouldn't have been Velma.

That little girl didn't do anything wrong. Why did this have to happen? I was in a state of perpetual torture, and drawing a breath every time felt like a chore that I shouldn't be performing. My daughter couldn't breathe without an oxygen mask, and she was laid on a cold, hard bed, rather than the warm embrace of my ...