The Perfect Wife Walked Away
The hospital stories, thankfully sanitized of gore and tragedy, were remade into adventures.
He related exciting tales about the time he and a team of doctors had worked for fourteen hours to fix a little boy's heart, and the little boy had woken up and asked for ice cream. The time a baby had been born so small that he could hold her in one hand, and she had screamed so loudly that the nurses in the next room had cheered. The time he had stitched up a dog's paw in an alley behind a grocery store because the owner couldn't afford a vet, and the dog had licked his face afterward, as if saying thank you.
Camilla loved the stories. She would lie in her bed, her rabbit tucked under her chin, her