The Only One Left
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So I became the next best thing. Until I did the wrong thing.
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Hmmm
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thought you of all people would appreciate that.”
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Damn
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Worse than nothing. Invisible. That’s how I feel.
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:(
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“Yes. I think she knew exactly what she was doing.” “Yet people blamed you.” “They did,” I say.
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“Leaving the bottle within reach was negligent. I won’t disagree about that. I never have. But everyone thought the worst.
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doesn’t matter that I lied to Mrs. Baker. Not just about my previous patient.
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“Hope’s End has thirty-six rooms,”
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Damn!!!
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Those are her wishes, and my job is to enact them. If you take issue with that, then you may leave right now. Am I understood?”
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Wealthy we were. Happy? Not so much.
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my body is dead but my mind is alive
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won’t hurt you. Now that would have calmed my nerves.
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how I ended up a caregiver, so willing to put others’ needs before mine, not even daydreaming about a bigger life.
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Two weeks later my mother was dead of a fentanyl overdose.
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Promise me you won’t remain here.” “I promise,” I said.
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“Winston’s throat was slashed and Evangeline was stabbed multiple times, yet no murder weapon was ever found.”
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Not so much my father, who hates the rich almost as much as he hates politicians.
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Behind her was my father, his trousers around his ankles and his face turning crimson as he thrust into her.