My husband, Ethan Cole, asked for my kidney on a rainy Tuesday night like he was asking.

no, and that a no does not make them selfish.

It makes them autonomous.

When the

session ended, a woman about my age came up to me with tears in her eyes and said, “I thought I was a bad person for hesitating.”

I squeezed her hand and said, “Hesitation is information.

Listen to it.”

That night I walked home under a clear sky and realized I had gone the entire continue reading …