My 17-Year-Old Son Sha:v:ed His Head for His Sick Girlfriend – The Next Day, Her Mother Said, ‘You Need to Come to the Hospital and See What Your Son Did’

it. “Honey, your hair. Why?”

My palm touched the cool skin where his curls used to be.

He did not pull away.

He just looked at me with those steady brown eyes that had always seemed older than seventeen.

“Mom, Lily’s hair is coming out in clumps now,” he said quietly. “She tried to laugh about it, but last week I heard her crying in the bathroom when she continue reading …