I watched the news waiting to hear

a very specific combination of words, but they never came.

Then one day I saw a news story about a train accident,

and I heard them.

"There is a sole survivor,

and he is miraculously unharmed."

I have something called osteogenesis imperfecta.

It's a genetic disorder. I don't make a particular protein very well,

and it makes my bones very low in density.

Very easy to break.

I've had 54 breaks in my life,

and I have the tamest version of this disorder, type one.

There are type two, type three, type four.

Type fours don't last very long.

So that's how it popped into my head.

If there is someone like me in the world,

and I'm at one end of the spectrum,

couldn't there be someone else the opposite of me at the other end?

Someone who doesn't get sick,

who doesn't get hurt like the rest of us?