Valerie Came Home From Deployment to Find Her Twelve-Year-Old Daughter in Intensive Care
“Getting her prescription.
The pharmacy on Lyndale.
I wasn’t gone twenty minutes.”
He turned his cup a quarter turn without drinking from it.
“If you want to make this into something it isn’t, that’s your business.
I’m the one who’s been here every day.”
He walked off to the tray return and left the cup, still full, on the rail.
Dr.