me her grandmother gave her one pill every night.
The bottle rattled because my hands were shaking.
I asked Emma how many Grandma had been giving her.One every night before bed,” she said.
Then she added that Grandma had told her it was their secret.
That was when the previous three weeks began lining themselves up in my head.
Emma had fallen asleep during dinner.
She had complained that her legs felt funny.
She had sat in front of her cereal one morning with a distant expression while I
