Before I Wake Page #4

It's difficult to explain

what cancer is to children.

In terms they can understand.

Your mother started to look

very different, very fast.

And by the time she was

in the Intensive Care Unit,

they started looking

a foster parents for you.

But they would've brought you in

to see her one last time.

To say goodbye.

Her voice would've been

hard to hear.

But I know she would've

tried to say, if she could.

The one thing she would never

want you to forget.

I...

...am always with you.

Once you got older,

you'd forget most of this.

And you told people the

Canker ate your mommy.

And as more time

went by...

in your mind.

The Canker Man ate my mom.

Into your mind, Cody.

Your amazing, special

one of kind mind,

made him real.

I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry.

I used you, like I did for Sean.

But I'll never do

that again, okay?

Never.

Here we go.

Here. Close to me, there.

Remember, nothing

to worry about, okay?

I'm going to be here

with you, all night.

Will you tell me a bedtime story?

Sure.

Once upon a time...

There was a special little boy...

Who needed a mom.

And there was a sad mom

she needed a son.

Is this a happy story?

I think it is.

Has a happy ending, anyway.

It feels like it can't.

Because there was a people

going away.

No one ever really goes away.

Not completely.

Because they live in our minds,

and in our hearts.

In this story...

That bully from school

woke up in his bed,

like nothing ever happened.

And whatever made him

so sad and mean, has gone.

And that nice lady

who care for the boy,

she came back to her hasbund,

and they lived happily

ever after.

And daddy...

Daddy got the best present of all.

Can those things happen?

I guess that depends on you, Cody.

You have an amazing gift.

Who knows what can happen

as it grows?

Thanks for bringing me home.

Mom.

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