In a quiet hospital room, a mother sat beside her daughter, her eyes never leaving the steady rise and fall of a tiny chest.
Melony, her six-year-old daughter, had been fighting the hardest battle of her young life, and yet, despite the tubes, machines, and bruises, she remained a fighter.
Just days ago, Melony had been intubated and sedated, her body too exhausted and weak to breathe on her own.
Over the weekend, she had tossed and turned in bed, her small body trembling as she screamed that she could not take it anymore.
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