After the call, I put the restored phone in the back of my drawer and locked it.Along with eight years of being young, in love, and wrong.That afternoon, the clinic took an emergency.It was an elderly man with sudden cardiac arrest, in critical condition.I went to work, fast, clean, no hesitation."Defibrillator. Charging to 200 joules. Clear."The shock lifted the patient off the bed.The monitor flatline turned back into peaks.His family was outside, sobbing with relief, thanking me on repeat.I wiped my forehead and walked out of the trauma room, sunlight flooding the hallway.In that moment, I felt it: this was my life.Not anyone's wife, not anyone's accessory: just my own two hands, saving lives.That night I went home, and Josh had dinner ready.He'd picked up cooking at the rehab program, and now he was a prep cook at a restaurant in town."Sis, try this. BBQ ribs, new recipe." He kept piling food on my plate.I watched him moving around the kitchen, completely different f
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