My Sister's Keeper
“I was about four months along when Gus and his mother showed up at the house. He looked awful. His beard was all grown out. His eyes were bloodshot like he’d been crying. His hair down over his ears. With his mother there holding his hand, he sat down before us and told us it had been his fault, that he’d messed up the brakes on Charlie’s car the day of the accident, and that he was sorry. He said he wanted to make things right, knelt down on one knee in front of me, his mother, and both my parents, and asked me to marry him. I was eighteen years old, pregnant, and had disappointed Mom and Dad enough. They all thought it was the right thing to do—and, truthfully, I guess it was. As far as I
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