“You all right, hon?” the nurse from earlier asks me. I give her a feeble nod and a watery smile. “Needed a second to compose myself, that’s all.” She nods back, looking at me like she just knows. “There is something very vulnerable about being stuck in a hospital bed. Makes people do and say things they usually might not. I see it all the time.” “What about people who aren’t in the hospital bed who desperately want to bludgeon their husband for being stupid and stubborn as hell? Is that something you see very often?” She chuckles. “Actually, it is.” I nod quickly and glance away, feeling
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