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through double doors into the emergency department. Monitors beeped behind curtains. Shoes squeaked against tile. Somewhere a child was crying.
Then I heard it.
“Mommy?”
Small.
Cracked.
Terrified.
I turned so fast I nearly fell.
Lily was sitting in a hospital bed under three heated blankets, her cheeks red in patches, her lips chapped, her eyes too large continue reading …
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