IN A COMA
Back in January of 1970 in Miami, Florida, sixteen-year-old Edwarda O’Bara, came down with the flu. When she didn’t get better after two weeks, her parents took her to the hospital. In the hospital she slipped into a diabetic coma, and she is still in that coma to this day, twenty-six years later. This story was in the December 25, 1995 issue of New York Daily News under the headline, “Her Twenty-sixth Yule in a Coma.” Twenty-six Christmases, twenty-six years, in a coma. Imagine that! As she was slipping into her coma twenty-six years ago, she whispered to her mother who was by her side: “Mommy, you won’t leave me?” Those were her last words. That pretty teenager is now forty-tow-years-old, and her mother has been by her side, caring for her daughter at home all these years. She reads to her and plays her favorite music. She maintains the hope that some day her daughter will awaken and (I quote…
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