Valerie Came Home From Deployment to Find Her Twelve-Year-Old Daughter in Intensive Care
I signed for it.”
She held it out.
The header was still gray from the machine.
Saint Jude Mercy Hospital, incoming, four oh two p.m., three pages, two received.
“Where’s the third page?”
“Still in his machine, he says.
It’s the scene diagram.” She pushed the pages at me.
“Read the top one first.”
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