“Please, sweetheart…” “Just sleep,” she said, gently stroking Sophia as fatigue obscured her vision.

Before taking this red-eye flight from Los Angeles to Chicago, she had worked two shifts back-to-back at the diner and hadn’t slept for almost two days.

Her finances had been depleted by the ticket, but she was powerless.

Despite their strained relationship, Rachel had to attend her sister’s wedding, which was in two days.