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Chapter 37
Avery POV
The beginning of September meant that classes were starting up again. I still had biology classes with Vasya on Tuesday while the rest of my classes were mainly for nursing theory, skills and clinicals. For nursing we mostly focused on skills and within the first month back at university we had learned to do simple and complex sterile dressing, suture removal, and medication administration. Kate and I made it a point to be paired up together as much as possible and ended up being on the same clinical rotations. She had become my biggest source of support when it came to nursing because she understood exactly what I was going through and I was able to provide her with that same support in return.
She had been working in a nursing home during the summer holiday and felt that she had gained a considerable amount of knowledge from just being there. I envied her the experience, but I was happy with the way my summer had gone. I told h
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