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“I bet that waking up is hard,” she said

“No, I started sort of co on? How did you push Bahan away?”

“I just…you crashed and I was so worried”

“But he loves you”

“He dom You know that”

“But he’s doing so much to help me anyway, and I saw the way he looked at you at the cereo”

“You’re en tubes

He looked up, startled to see his father rolling into his room with his portable tank on his lap “Father, you should be resting”

The oldbut rest I’d like to be able to do soood works before my time”

“Don’t say that,” he said, stepping away fro when his father ake and up to talking? “You have time yet”

“Perhaps,” he said, wheezing a bit “Or ht about my COPD My point is that you’ve been miserable for weeks, ever since you ca bride”

Bahan gritted his teeth and tried to push away his hurt and frustration with Jennifer “She didn’t feel like she wanted to come back with me In fact, she was quite vocal about it”

“Yet you dutifully check on her sister’s progress more than daily”

“How did you know?”

His father sed “I have my little birdies as well, Bahan My question is, what are you going to do about it?”