It would have been the same either way. That was what she had tried to tell herself. If it came back negative, no harm, no foul. If it came back positive she was always going to die either way. The only difference was now she would know.
She’d pictured this moment dozens of times in her head. She’d thought she’d been adequately prepared for it. She was wrong. She realized now she never could have prepared herself for anything like this.
It was suffocating, the disappointment she felt. She’d always known her chances weren’t good, but...
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