I took a step toward him, then another and another until I stood right in front of him. I cupped his face, held it, felt his breath against my lips. “I see you, Hutch. You matter. You don’t have to get in trouble to get my attention the way you did with your parents when you were a kid. You don’t have to be a certain kind of doctor, or have any specific career, or do whatever events I wanted to show you off at for you to have my attention. It’s yours, and you deserve even more.” Because Hutch didn’t feel like he deserved it, did he? Whether it was isolating himself, or acting out when he was
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