Further behind the soccer field, my brother, me, and our neighbor who lived in the blue house five down on the right from us thought we could discover the cure for cancer by mixing berries we found in the woods, dirt, and tree bark to heal his mother.

I didn’t know what cancer was, but when I imagined it in my head, I thought of Venom from Spiderman when he would become enveloped in the symbiotic villain.