It meant the organization belonged to its community, not to a sentimental story about a doctor receiving an inheritance.

I filed the report and went back to making soup.

Outside, rain tapped against the window, and I remembered Chloe asking why I always looked so serious.

I smiled, even though nobody was watching.

An ordinary evening was something she had understood the value of long before I did.

PART 24

When the new clinic opened its weekend sessions, I signed up for one Saturday each month.

The people who came were not especially different from the people I had seen during training.