Betty-Ann

She always knew she was not like everyone else. Something hidden existed in her—unknown even to herself. At school she drew amazing pictures, despite the fact that one arm was not working after a terrible accident in childhood. No one could understand the meaning of her drawings. Betty-Ann was special: she easily absorbed school material and could learn the course of two or three grades within a year. But her special gift was the ability to see the world around her—the colors of this world, to distinguish the living and the nonliving in her own way, the way no one else could see…

Everything became clear in college, when they came for her and told her the whole truth, and she gladly accepted it. But the events that followed—things that seemed easy at first—made Betty-Ann look at her life and her place in it differently. She wasn’t sure she was doing the right thing until the very end, but in the last moment she made her choice and never regretted it…