[Answered on quora.com by Dushka Zapata]
My niece had a freak accident.
She was making S’mores while closely supervised and as one of the marshmallows began to swell and puff and roast it caught fire and billowed off the skewer. A gust of wind blew it – in flames- into her eye.
Marshmallows are sticky.
She spent three weeks in the Burn Care Unit of a hospital.*
When my brother called to notify me of this I found his voice and his demeanor beyond recognition. He was unglued.
When my niece was born my brother took everything he loved and everything he was interested in and happily set it aside. She would come first now.
There are not many things that I know for sure but I know that as long as they are both alive she will be his single most important thing.
Parents can’t let go because they give up their lives to make sure we are comfortable.
*My niece made a full recovery. My brother is scarred for life.
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