We don’t have children to fulfill our dreams. Children allow us to let go of the dreams we were never meant to fulfill. - Cutting for Stone

Ghosh trusted me to do whatever it is I would choose to do. That, too, is love. He'd been dead more than a quarter century and he was still teaching me about the trust that comes only from true love.

And that is how he passed from this life to the next, without fanfare, with characteristic simplicity, fearless, opening his eyes that last time to make sure we were fine before he went on.

All possibilities resided within me, and they required me to be here. If I left, what would be left of me?