This Is Us
Proof of Existence
Four years later, it brings me joy to imagine the young woman Ana would be now
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6 min readFeb 2, 2021
My daughter Ana was tiny, partly because of genetics and partly because she got sick right before she hit puberty. She stood just over five feet tall and weighed between 105 and 110 pounds. Her bones were small and birdlike, her features delicate. She…
