After Heart Surgery, I Woke Up to Learn My Three Children Had Gone Home Because Hospital Parking Was Too Expensive. I Lay There in Tears Until a Well-Dressed Stranger Entered,

friends who look like you.”

“Actually,” Malcolm said, “I’ve known her longer than you have.”

Gloria stepped forward. She extended a business card.

“Gloria Nakamura,” she said. “I represent your mother.”

David took the card. He read it. His face went pale.

“Represent her?” Sarah said. “For what? She doesn’t need a lawyer.”

“She does,” Gloria said, “since you filed a petition yesterday afternoon at 4:22 asking the King County Superior Court to appoint David as her emergency guardian and conservator.”

Silence swept the room.

Michael turned slowly from