In many ways Emily Anhalt is a typical teenager. She rolls her big brown eyes when her mom asks her to unplug herself from an iPod to answer a visitor’s questions. Her room is strewn with books, clothes, and posters of cute boy bands. “It looks like it exploded,” she cheerfully admits.
….But in one significant respect, Emily is not typical at all. Every night, after she brushes her teeth, puts on her pajamas, and climbs into bed, her parents come into her bedroom and hook her up to a dialysis machine.