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She looks over at her gruet over it You need me"

She doesn’t let up Not when Melissa walks over and joins Not when Dee shuffles under my arm and burrows close to Izzy And not even when Chelcie brings up the rear and wraps her arirls Each of them at one time was just as lost as I was I’ve watched, helped, and cheered silently from the shadows as each of them overcame and thrived with one of my brothers

Hope Trust in the unknown And love It’s been right in front of , but I’ve been too blind to see it

I close uard down Then I take the masks and shields I’ve used as tools to keep others out and throw the andaround the each of the women in my life who have loved every dark piece of ether, they help ive me the time I need to expressfro down my cheeks When Iand support trained ive me a tip of their chins and turn their attention back to each other--allowing me this moment

Thirty minutes later, the women back next to their husbands--and since Salked in during the tail end of their hugs, I just detached him from my body seconds before--the doctor comes into the room

"The family of Ms Keeze?" he asks the room

I move quickly and stand before hi

He scans the rooain "Is there somewhere we can speak privately?"

"This is her faht here"

"Very well Your wife is resting as comfortably as possible at the moment X-rays show that she has a fracture to her ulna, and although it’s stabilized, the swelling is too great for her to be placed in a cast at the moment She has also has a transverse tibia fracture The swelling issue is also present Both will be placed in a cast as soon as possible Her throat will be sore for a few days There isn’t any internal da about the pain I placed two stitches to the laceration on her tes considered, your wife is a very lucky wo to make sense of her injuries I understand, at so to say to me, but I can’t compute it until I see her

"Do you have any questions formoved to her rooo over those questions"

I nod and oes over her injuries in more detail and tells me that she will need to be ad will be down enough for her cast to be placed by

"I understand that you rode in with her, but it’s been a few hours and her bruising had gotten a little worse Be prepared, Mr Keeze--she isn’t going to look like the wo will fade The bones will heal She’s alive"