To Love…

To Love…. July 30th, it’s Sophia’s birthday. Thirteen years have now passed since Sophia turned 22 in hospital, her sweet face captured forever in the photographs—so precious to me, so expressive of Sophie—that my sister, Kaye, took that day. Sophie, propped up on pillows, her long hair tumbling across her shoulders, was glad to have reached the milestone, joyously glad—against all odds—to be alive. How grateful I am for that day, and for the days