Richard Cole was a 45-year-old real estate mogul in Seattle. He had everything—money, a house on the hill, influence.
But for the last three years, none of it meant as much as his eight-year-old son, Ethan, who had lost the use of his legs in a car accident. Since then, Ethan had stopped smiling, stopped playing, barely ate.
Every day, Richard watched his child slowly lose the will to live—and felt completely helpless.
One evening, Richard left a business meeting early and got home ahead of schedule. As he opened the front door, he heard something he hadn’t heard in months: a child’s bright, genuine laughter.
