“Hospitals are quiet in the wrong way. Not the kind of quiet that soothes but the kind that holds its breath. Metal beds with stiff sheets, monitors that blink like half-truths. I watch grief drip slowly from IV bags, measured, saline, polite. There’s a chair near the window I never sit in. It knows too much.”
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A Shelf of Things I Never Said
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