I took my twin sons, both fighting stage 4 cancer, to see the ocean and fulfill their greatest — and perhaps LAST — I WISH… 🥺But then the hotel manager knocked on our door and said, “There’s something about this journey that you don’t know.”

That summer we returned to the same ocean.

Me, Ben and Chris.

Ben took the two silver bracelets out of his pocket.

He placed his own around the doll.

And he put Lily’s on the sand.

Then he began to build the same kind of sand castle that they had built during that first trip.

Chris sat down beside him.

A wave came and destroyed half the castle.

Chris extended his hand to quickly rebuild it.

But Ben stopped him.

“Don’t worry, Dad.

He looked out over the ocean.

“Lily used to say that just because something breaks doesn’t mean it’s all over.

Then he took another handful of sand.

Chris did the same.

And together they began to rebuild what the wave had destroyed.