Sara Summary

The year is 2001. Sara recalls 10-year-old Anna asking for $600 for hockey equipment. Anna filled in for a sick player and found out how much she liked it. Sara said they would discuss it. Later, Brian and Sara did not even know she was playing. Sara wondered what other secrets her daughter had.

The family was about to go watch Anna play hockey when 13-year-old Kate said she could not go because of her looks. She had a bad rash, a swollen face, and bad skin. They were the signs of graft versus host disease that Kate got after the transplant. Over the past 4 years, it had been happening off and on. This was the marrow rejecting the body. This was good because it meant the cancer cells were being resisted. The symptoms, though, were terrible. Sara let her stay home from school when...