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Gamay sensed that Lee was in shock from the violence she had witnessed

“It’s okay, Dr Lee,” she said “You’re safe now”

Lee turned her head, and Ga in her eyes

“I’m a doctor,” Lee said “I’m supposed to save lives, not take them”

“You saved our lives,” Gamay said “That man and his friends would have killed us both”

“I know that Still”

“Do you have any idea who they were?” Paul asked

Lee wiped the tears aith the back of her hand

“He said he had been watchingfor o to the house We aiting for people coued That’s when I grabbed the knife and ran”

Gamay put her hand on Lee’s forearm

“I think you had better start at the beginning,” Gamay said

Lee gulped down her Coke like a thirsty longshorean to tell her story

She had been born in a rural part of China, excelled in science as a college student, and went to study in the US on a grant froes of disease a about it She specialized in iy at Harvard Medical School, and did her residency at Massachusetts General Hospital

Returning to China, she found a job with a govern the health of slu sure that people were i the sources of disease in the water and air Her success led to a position in a hospital, where she orking at the time the SARS epidemic broke out

Finally, Lee told Gamay how she had been exiled to the countryside after questioning the governnment to Bonefish Key, to work on a vaccine, based on an ocean organism, for a new virus strain