Jessica Bishop. She’s thinner than she looked in the photos tacked to the wall of her room. Then again, most of the patients lose weight in here. A week of drinking protein shakes and eating a low-calorie diet of fruit and snacks has likely dropped ten pounds from her frame. From here, I can see the bright-red scar on one of her wrists and remember the night she came in, the quick work that was needed to close up the cut, her blood gushing out all over the admittance-room table. She was incoherent, her words spilling over each other, tears flooding her eyes. He’s already made so much progress
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