Chapter 1128 A Daughter's Discovery:>Ep11

• It was an extraordinary experience, for it meant that in an instant I was not only connected to her physically but in every other way as well. And I saw that her body was wonderous, with each part working perfectly with the others as she moved sinuously beneath me -- except for one. For there, lurking deep in the central part of her brain, was a dark shadow.
• I zoned in on it to find a cluster of astrocytes, deep and low in the left parietal lobe They had mutated and, even as I watched, pulsed and vibrated like a hornet's nest as they multiplied. Can you imagine my anguish, Sarah? After a wasted life I had found a woman who truly loved me, and I her. But the future I had envisaged together was, in that terrible moment, dashed. But I managed to maintain my composure as we made love on that day, and each time I coupled with her again. I'm sure she sensed my change in mood though, as I struggled with what I had learned. She would ask me what was wrong, and I would smile and reassure her, but I could see in her eyes she didn't believe me. It was a shadow that fell over both our lives, and I was the only one who knew why.
• I studied all I could about brain tumors, devouring every medical paper and journal that I could find. Each time we made love I would examine her affliction, noting how it was growing. I reached out to surgeons far and wide, and all of them told the same story. It was inoperable, they said. All I could do was to make the remaining months of her life comfortable.