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incurable diseases. Without a doubt, one of them was asthma.
Even though she graduated a long time ago, she could still
remember her beloved professor, who was her advisor. She
instantly got out of their big bed in the dark and turned on the lamp
on her desk. She opened one of the drawers where piles of paper
were stacked and searched for a phone book. Seeing his wife
working, Matthew got up from the bed as well and walked over to
the desk where the telephone was. He dialed his doctor friend, who
specialized in the respiratory system, and asked him for more
information about asthma. Once Nova found the book she was
looking for, she turned the pages over to find the column that
contained names of people whose names begin with the letter L.
She looked up for the name of professor Lydia Smith and tried to
contact her. However, she received the news that her old advisor
had moved overseas with her husband’s family, and no one could
contact her for months. She didn’t give up. She worked even harder
to find a way to help Eddie. She stayed up all night trying to get her
thesis report back.
Several days passed, and she finally received a copy of her
work from a friend. Along with Matthew, they started to work hard
to find a cure, did a lot of research, and performed many
experiments. They worked tirelessly during the day and spared the
evening time for their only son. Eddie was now in kindergarten.
He was active and cheerful. The Browns always had dinner
together at the round table in the dining room and listened to the
talkative boy brag about mastering the alphabet or counting 1-10.
Some days he would talk about his friends, a cat at school, or
flowers in the school garden. These were the greatest moments for