She Used My Love to Pay for Her Game
Language: en
That year of purest love, Wesley told me with red-rimmed eyes that her world was silent. To scrape together the two hundred thousand dollars for her cochlear implant, I worked three jobs a day. The calluses on my hands wore through layer after layer, and I couldn't even bear to buy a one-dollar bottle of water. My friends all laughed at me for being foolish: "You're literally selling yourself to buy her an ear!" I just smiled. As long as she could hear, anything I did would be worth it. The day Wesley got her cochlear implant, she held me and cried for a long time: "Ronald, you're so…