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~Tension~

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We sat in the last of the afternoon and talked the way we had always talked, the easy comprehensive way of two people who had accumulated enough shared history that the conversation could move anywhere without requiring a map. She told me about her nursing rotation, a difficult week with a patient whose family had complicated everything, the kind of story that required no advice and simply needed to be told to someone who would understand it. I listened properly, the way you listened when you
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