The Gift (3)

He remembered wanting to scream. Of course there is something you can do! Make her better! You’re a doctor, that’s what you do! If only it had been that easy. His wife had been so strong through it all. She had been a very religious woman and it seemed that this enabled her to face this trial with confidence. She would read her Bible often and after she had become increasingly weak, she asked him to read it aloud to her. And so for what seemed like hours and only for her sake he read the...