"What if he doesn't wake up, Alex?" Min-jung asked Alex with tears in her eyes as they both stood beside Jake's hospital bed.
"You can't give in to despair. You need to pull yourself together, and let's stay hopeful that he will regain consciousness," Alex said as he pulled Min-Jung close to him to comfort her while they both stared at Jake's unconscious form.
Nothing in the last twenty-two years had prepared her for such a reunion. She had waited and prayed fervently for the day she would meet her son, and she couldn't imagine that instead of embracing him and celebrating that she had finally found him, she was standing by his bedside, watching his unconscious form.
What was she going to do if he never woke up? How was she going to live knowing she had found him only to lose him finally to the cold hands of death?
