![]() In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life.” “That's exactly what we found with families at Memorial when we were in the thick of it with Gus's treatment,” his dad said. “Most of the people are really nice,” I finally said. I paused a second, trying to figure out if my response should be calibrated to please Augustus or his parents. ![]() “You're such a Debbie Downer,” his mom said. He was tall- almost as tall as Gus-and skinny in a way that parentally aged people usually aren't. “How's it going, Hazel?” asked Gus's dad. “This is Hazel Grace,” he said, by way of introduction. Maybe he brought home a different girl every night to show her movies and feel her up. They didn't seem too surprised by my arrival, which made sense: The fact that Augustus made me feel special did not necessarily indicate that I was special. His mom was putting chicken into tortillas, which his dad then rolled up and placed in a glass pan. They were making enchiladas in the kitchen (a piece of stained glass by the sink read in bubbly letters Family Is Forever). “My parents call them Encouragements,” he explained. ![]() True Love Is Born from Hard Times promised a needle-pointed pillow in their antique-furnished living room. Good Friends Are Hard to Find and Impossible to Forget read an illustration above the coat rack. A wooden plaque in the entryway was engraved in cursive with the words Home Is Where the Heart Is, and the entire house turned out to be festooned in such observations. We made a wheels-screeching turn into a subdivision with eight-foot-high stucco walls. I could feel the muscle right beneath the skin, all tense and amazing. ![]() “That explains the aura of sophistication.” He smirked at me. So I'm taking classes at MCC,” which was our community college. “I actually can't,” I explained, “because I already got my GED. “So now you gotta go back to school,” he said. (I did not yet know the size of the bit.) But when telling Augustus Waters, I painted the rosiest possible picture, embellishing the miraculousness of the miracle. Part 2/4.Īdmittedly, my Cancer Miracle had only resulted in a bit of purchased time. ![]()
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