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He nodded He already knew that, obviously "What kind of doctor do you want to be?"

I hesitated, as I often had since I’d done so horribly on the MCAT the previous year Since that afternoon when I’d stared at those results, sloatching my dream twist down the drain in a whirlpool of suck I took a deep breath and squared ist"

He tilted his head towardshis attention "Really Hard stuff That would take a special kind of strength to deal with cancer patients all day"

"Cancer is a bitch that needs to get the crap smacked out of it I intend to stand on the front lines with a big-ass bat"

He watched my fist clench on the tabletop "Sounds like it’s very personal to you"

I took another sip of wine, studied his strong hand resting on the table next to his dinner plate "It is My mom had it"

"She’s okay now?"

I nodded For theher, there was always the specter of recurrence hovering near Were it not for her regular inoculation therapy, that specter would bein and getting treat them entirely almost paralyzed me with fear

I lifted my eyes to his They penetrated like arrows

"That h on all of you"

"It’s just us Me and her I’m an only child and I have no idea who e He didn’t evenis your mother’s name?"

Another sip "Yep She’s both ood job of it, I’d say"

"I agree"

"You don’t even know anything about

I gazed at hiular of a reader are you?"

An enigmatic s have you been reading?"

He shrugged "I don’t know, a year or so"

"A year?"