The Dress He Bought Three Days Early
She said, “He gets so worried,” in a kitchen, to her mother, with a coffee cup in her hand.
Part Three: What Thirty-One Years Teaches You
Margaret Collins started at Palomar in 1988, when she was twenty-three, and she worked emergency nursing until she was fifty-four.
She had four years in a level II trauma center and the rest in community EDs, and in that time she had seen, by her own rough count, somewhere north of two thousand people die.
What that does to a person is not what people imagine.
It does not make you cold.