"What do you want to be when you grow up?"

Ami was asked that question so often. She'd tried several answers: Author. Wife. Dancer.

None made her mother happy. Ami could practically hear the response. "Intelligence" and "potential" were used a lot.

She kept trying. Teacher. Swimmer. Policewoman.

They, too, were incorrect. There was nothing Ami wanted more than the right answer.

"What do you want to be when you grow up?"

"Close to my mother," was what she wanted to say.

What she said was: "A doctor."

Finally she had approval, and knew that would have to be enough.