"How long does it take you to replace a light?" His father asks.
"I don't know," the girl's boyfriend says.
"Zero minutes and zero seconds. Because you don't want to replace a light," his father says. "It's already broken. Try replacing it,"
"Never," he says.
Day 4 out of 5
"Hey, sunshine. How ya doin?"
"...I'm...broken...I can't be fixed...," She says with her eyes closed, barely moving.
"I can make you bright again! ....I can!...I-I.......," He starts crying. "You're my only sunshine...,"
"Don't cry...," She says.
He continues crying.
"....Stay...bright...or me," she says to him.
He wipes his eyes. "That's my line...," He smiles at her.
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Sunshine
Short Story"Hey, sunshine. How ya doin?" "...Not very...bright today...," A girl with really bad cancer goes through the last five days of her life feeling alive. Feeling bright. Like bright sunshine.
