“I’ve Been A NICU Nurse For Thirteen Years, And I Almost Judged A Giant Tattooed Biker By His Hands. He Asked To Hold The Baby Nobody Had Come To Visit, And Sat In The Same Chair For Twelve Hours. Then A Nurse Noticed The Small, Faded Tattoo On His Wrist: A Name, And A Date.”

to. Dylan was in the NICU eighteen days, with a heart defect nobody caught early enough. He made it home. He had two years and four months, Marcus said, and he was the kind of kid who laughed at everything, even the things that weren’t funny, especially those. Marcus stopped talking a bit. “When I heard about this program, I thought, well. I know how continue reading …