"I hope so. It's why I want to write - so I can express with chosen words things that I want everyone to feel, to experience. To give them something they can't get on their own."

Hugging him back, there's more warmth in her voice, less tension in her frame. Talking like this is doing wonders to push back the death, the waiting, the unpleasant news.

"I want to let other people read my words and understand something that I need them to know, without me saying it aloud. Telling the stories I want to, because I simply have to do it."