What is the narrative’s thesis statement? I’ll never forget walking into that hospital for the first time. My parents had been t
elling me that I needed to volunteer at the localchildren’s hospital. People always say we should stop and smell the roses, but I didn’t reallyunderstand exactly what this meant until I was about 13 years old. Over the next several months I became good friends with Emilio, a teenagerfighting for his life, who taught me to appreciate the small things life has tooffer us.
