Chapter 95

Nineteen years had passed since the tragic events that had changed Carmela's life forever. She sat in a crowded seminar room, surrounded by strangers who were all there for the same reason - to share their stories and heal. 

A man opposite her asked a question that caught her off guard.

"How did you know that all you had dreamed was true to what was happening in reality?"

Carmela took a deep breath before answering. "My vegetative state was a miracle. It allowed me to see and understand things that I had been blind to before. It revealed secrets about my life that I had been unaware of."

The woman leading the therapy session nodded sympathetically. "And how are you now? Are you coping?"

Carmela hesitated for a moment before responding. "I'm alright. It's all in the past."

But as she spoke, her voice began to crack, and tears started to well up in her eyes. "I’m sorry…It's just...it pains me that Max didn't get to see his kids grow up. He didn