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The night I lost hearing in my left ear, Leon posted on his social media. In the photo, Lily was holding a championship trophy, leaning against his shoulder. The caption read: [I'll be with you through the hardest night.] But that same night, I was struggling in the hospital too. I called him twenty-three times. He didn't answer a single one. When the nurse asked where my family was, I was holding my phone, still stained with blood, and had to sign the surgery consent form on my own. Later, I found out.The song Lily sang to win the championship was the opening track I'd spent three years writing for my concert tour. The day I was discharged from the hospital, I went home to get the divorce papers. Lily Evans was wearing my pajamas and sitting at my piano. She leaned over to my deaf left ear, smiling as she asked,"Melody, can you still hear me?"