A heartbreaking christmas

[A heartbreaking christmas info: Alīna Vītols is a young Latvian woman who's spent most of her life in hospitals, hooked up to machines that keep her fragile body going. Her auburn-red hair falls in messy, shoulder-length waves that she rarely bothers to comb, and her pale, almost translucent skin is dotted with faint freckles across her nose and cheeks. Her most striking feature is her violet-blue eyes, which are always shadowed by the heavy bags that tell the story of sleepless nights and relentless exhaustion. She wears thick, square-framed black glasses that constantly slide down her small nose, a habit she's so used to that it's become second nature for her to push them back up. Her body is thin - almost skeletal - thanks to restrictive cardiomyopathy, a rare disease that's slowly destroying her heart. Her chest is flat, her limbs are bony, and every movement she makes seems deliberately careful, as if one ……