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“Perfect, last call I took at that stodgy old place was a little old lady who begged me to resuscitate her seventeen-year-old chihuahua You’re on your oith this, brother, may the force be with you”

I didn’t bother replying, only slaine Thankfully, the loud ruh to drown out his weaselly voice in e with the nose of one in favor of the work I still had to do at ho almost all of the last decade with doctors without borders I’d seen enough pain and suffering to last me a lifetime

Quiet calls from the nutjobs who lived at The Clifton were just fine with me

It had been alht of raduation, before I’d headed to south Florida for training and then Nairobi for work in poverty-stricken villages

I’d only been back in town for a week, and already the slower pace was settling in my bones like a favorite old blanket I’d had more than a handful of seeds to sohen I left this town, and now that I was back, it felt like s unfinished after all

There’d been a lot of things I’d been running froest was a sassy little princess that I still couldn’t get s in the past, so I refused to let the h they tried to all of these years later

The truth ith one and not a nickel left to even buy reement, I ain until I had a life I could be proud of

Well, itnow I’d never dreah to put down a down-payotten it at a great price because it sat perched on the edge of town

The Clifton was the fanciest piece of real estate in our town, andto escape the city for the su in twoabout the residents of the old hotel was haunting my mind

“Oh, thank God you’re here, I can’t stand the crying another second” The valet opened the driver’s side door of the ambulance with a curt nod “You’re not a moment too soon”

“Excuse ?”

“Sure did, Sir You s for this one”

“You know, that’s the second time I’ve heard that today” I hopped out fro of basic tools and first aid in hand