Short story about a physically deformed girl who is adopted by a Native American couple and lives with their family on a reservation.
“Mrs. Lasher, I have something important to say. Your other child has a congenital deformity and may die. Shall we use extraordinary means to salvage it?” She looked at the doctor with utter incomprehension at first, then cried, “No!” While the doctor’s back was turned, the nurse cleared my mouth with her finger, shook me upside down, and swaddled me tightly in another blanket, pink. I took a blazing breath. “Nurse,” the doctor said. “Too late,” she answered.
It could have been plain arrogance, but then there had also been distress in her tone. My brain had taped the eight words she’d said. All that night and the next morning, too, they played on a loop. By the end of the second day, however, the intonation grew fainter, and I was relieved that on the third day it stopped. On the fourth day, she called again. She began by apologizing: “I am sorry to bother you.
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