She let herself in and I followed her in to the hall. Her father emerged from another room. Tracy hugged her father, "Hi dad, miss me?" her father hug...ed her back and laughing, said,"So you've come home at last, I was beginning to think you'd moved out." Dad, this is Ann, she's been looking after me."Tracy's father reached out his hand and I shook it, his hands were strong and hard. He was a little taller than myself, slim and with receding dark hair. He had a lovely white smile that spread to. " I ... I don't remember doing it, really." You don't?" I remember what happened, but I didn't really choose it. It was just a reaction. He pretended to be Yvonne, so I knew something was wrong, and I kicked the door in." His voice started to quiver a little, and she stroked his arm, pulling him up onto the sofa beside her. "There you were, and ... that just seemed wrong. I had to stop him. That was all I could think of."After Shawna and then you I just had to stop him." Marcus, I was still. I whispered softly in her ear. ?Aren?t you going to return the compliment to Elizabeth? She needs you now.? Amelia jerked slightly as she realised how selfish she had been. ?Oh! I?m so sorry. I was so far gone. How selfish of me. Yes! Yes, of course. Show me what to do.? Gently, I led Amelia?s trembling fingers across Elizabeth?s thighs and slowly up to the divide. Elizabeth gasped slightly as I gently led Amelia?s fingers directly to the spot. For a second,. I mean, in most areas, the patients you are helping get better, and go home. But for cancer patients, you know that the chances that they will get better are not good. I can handle that for someone who is seventy or eighty; you know they’ve had a long life. But for a little kid, who’s barely six ... knowing they will not live much longer is really hard to handle.“The kids themselves rarely complain; most of them have known nothing other than hospitals, chemo, and all that stuff. It breaks your.