"Months of not knowing what was wrong with her. One guide. I finally had the words. I used it that evening. She went to sleep calm."
"He'd been shutting down every morning for weeks. I read it on my lunch break. That evening I tried it. He talked to me for the first time in days."
"I thought it was defiance. It wasn't. Twenty minutes and I finally understood what he'd been trying to tell me for months."