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This Year's Wish: Please Let Me Live Chapter 10
"Bowie, my dearest son, by the time you read this letter, I'll likely be gone."I'm sorry. This is probably the phrase I've said to you the most, yet it's also the most meaningless."I'm a monster who doesn't deserve to be your mother. I gave birth to you, yet I abandoned you. I found you again, yet I destroyed you. I manipulated you in the name of love, deceived you with lies of sacrifice, and never once gave you a single day of real maternal love."I know you hate me, as you should. I hate myself too—so much that I can't sleep at night. I wish I could rip my own heart out to see what it's made of and how it could be so cruel to my own son."The surgeon said my artificial heart might not last very long. That's fine. I owe you a life anyway."There's just one last thing I want to do for you. Bowie, everything I ever gave you was filthy—fake embraces, love laden with conditions, and those bloody organs ripped away from your body."But this heart is clean. It has never hurt you, an
This Year's Wish: Please Let Me Live Chapter 9
Bowie's POVThat night, I had a very, very long dream.In the dream, the sunshine was blindingly bright.There was no smell of hospital disinfectant, no ice-cold needles, and none of those hideous scars across my body.Esther held my hand while Philip carried me on his shoulders. We were walking together to the amusement park.I was dressed in a neat little suit, clutching a colorful pinwheel in my hand. It spun round and round whenever the breeze blew.When I wiggled out of their reach and ran ahead, Esther called out gently behind me, "Bowie, slow down!"The next second, Philip scooped me up onto his shoulders. "Higher, Dad, higher!" I giggled, my tiny hands gripping his hair.Bruce was there too.He was healthy and lively, his cheeks flushed with a rosy glow as he ran over to take my hand."Bowie, let's go ride the carousel! I'll let you have the prettiest white horse!" he said.We rode the carousel together. Then we ate cotton candy and splashed in the water by the fount
This Year's Wish: Please Let Me Live Chapter 8
Bowie's POVI started refusing treatment.When the nurse brought the pills over, I turned my head away.Esther was beside herself with anxiety. Holding a glass of warm water, she coaxed me as if I were a baby. "Bowie, open your mouth. Just take one pill, okay? Once you take the medicine, it won't hurt anymore."I finally spoke up. "Why?"She paused for a moment, then asked, "Why what?""Why are you being so good to me now?" I demanded, looking her dead in the eye. "I've already given you my bone marrow, my kidney, my liver, and my heart. I have nothing left. What's so special about an empty shell that's worth all this effort from you?""Bowie, no. You're not an empty shell. You're my son…" she said, as tears streamed down her face again. She tried to touch my hand, but I pulled away.Philip had appeared at the doorway at some point.He'd aged so much over the past few days. The white hair at his temples was painfully glaring, and his back was slightly hunched."Bowie, I… I ha
This Year's Wish: Please Let Me Live Chapter 7
Bowie's POVI slept for a very, very long time. When I opened my eyes again, everything felt like it had changed.My heart wasn't mine anymore.Yet why was it beating so strongly, so familiarly, as if it'd been meant for me all along?Esther and Philip had changed, too. It was as if they suddenly loved me.Esther practically lived at the hospital. She stayed by my bedside, her eyes always red and swollen."Bowie, look. This is the tiger plushie you liked best when you were little. I looked everywhere to find one just like it," she said.Holding up a faded old toy, she offered it to me with utmost care.She continued, "And this is the Rubik's Cube from your first birthday. I kept it all this time. As for this suit, your grandmother bought it when you were born. But you never got to wear it even once."How strange. I wasn't their son, so why were there all these things from when I was born?Leaning against the headboard, I watched her in silence.The heart beat steadily inside
This Year's Wish: Please Let Me Live Chapter 6
Third-Person POVThe report slipped from Philip's trembling hands and drifted to the floor.Esther had already passed out from crying, and a nurse helped her into the nearby lounge.Philip slowly crouched down and picked up the paper. The words burned deep into his mind.So many memories flooded back to him.He remembered when Bowie first arrived, the hopeful gleam in his eyes as he cautiously called him "Dad".He remembered how before every surgery, Bowie would always obediently say, "I'm willing to do it."He remembered after being locked in the storage room, Bowie said faintly, "Mom, please don't abandon me."He remembered how, just this morning, Bowie knelt on the ground, crying and saying, "I want to survive this year, too.""Mr. Easton." After what felt like an eternity, Henry reappeared, his expression grim. "Bowie's condition isn't looking good," he said.Philip snapped his head up, listening in a numb daze.Henry continued, "The transplant surgery itself was a succe
This Year's Wish: Please Let Me Live Chapter 5
Third-Person POVThose two words dealt a devastating blow to Esther and Philip."From a medical standpoint, yes," Henry replied with certainty as he flipped through the report. "The pre-op HLA matching showed an amazingly high compatibility. "Post-op, there was almost no rejection, and his heart function recovered extraordinarily fast. These signs strongly indicate a blood relationship, and a very close one at that."He raised his head and pushed up his glasses. "To be honest, I've been performing organ transplants for 20 years. I've only seen this level of compatibility between identical twins or parents and their children. When you adopted him, didn't the orphanage provide detailed information about his background?"Esther opened her mouth, but the words caught in her throat.She grabbed Philip's arm, trembling uncontrollably.Philip managed to maintain a calm facade, though he was deathly pale.He swallowed hard and asked hoarsely, "Dr. Carter… could there be a mistake? We
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