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It was like she’d transformed before my eyes. Everything about her shifted. She was a professional all of a sudden, going through a routine I could tell she’d done a million times. I just stared at her.
“Ali, men are two things. Disappointing and consistent. I believe you.”
“How many bones are there in the human body?” “Two hundred and six,” she said without skipping a beat. “Which one’s your favorite?” “I like the hyoid bone. It’s basically free floating and no one talks about it.” She sniffed. “It’s very underrated.”
It’s amazing how someone can touch you, even if you only know them for a moment in time. How they can change you, alter you indelibly.
Sometimes I did wish I got to see my patients again and again. To see them grow up, stay with them through their lives and witness the changes.
Even in my ER, my nurses did all the dirty work for me.
There is a peace in knowing the one thing you can’t live without. It simplifies all things. There was her, and then there was everything and everyone else. And only she really mattered. It was easy to know it.
Love follows you. It goes where you go. It doesn’t know about social divides or distance or common sense. It doesn’t even stop when the person you love dies. It does what it wants. Even if what you want is to not be in love.
There’s something more final than forever. It’s never. Never is infinite.
Because sometimes family isn’t what you’re born into. Sometimes family is found.
