“The homeless girl approached the dying old man and drew a picture of his mother… When he saw the drawing, tears ran down his wrinkles.”
The hospital room smelled like antiseptic and fading hope. Monitors beeped slowly, rhythmically, as if counting down the last chapters of a long, forgotten book. In the bed by the window lay Arthur Bell, a once-renowned architect whose name used to be printed on plaques and blueprints, now reduced to a man whose only visitors…