I hurried to the hospital.Over the years, Alexa had devoted herself to medical research, giving it her all.Both as a mentor and a researcher.Now, not yet fifty, her body was already riddled with ailments.I entered the hospital room and sat beside her.Suddenly, I remembered my daughter's birthday party the day before.She had come to see me in her wheelchair, forcing herself to make what must have been a final farewell.Riley sat across from me, her expression grief-stricken.This woman approaching fifty covered her face, weeping uncontrollably.I looked at Alexa with tubes inserted throughout her body, monitoring equipment beeping steadily.An oxygen mask covered her mouth and nose. She struggled to speak, but I couldn't hear her voice.After decades as siblings, I could easily read her lips.She was calling me, repeatedly, urgently but weakly."Caleb. Caleb."I remembered that heavy snowfall again, remembered the twenty-two-year-old Riley holding me tightly. As long as your siste
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