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Death Doesn't Stop For Christmasby Lucy Rose *Warning: Self harm/Mental health* “I wasn’t going to do it,” she whispered, doe-eyes begging me to understand from her hospital bed, eyelashes long and wet and pleading. Her thick eyeliner remained unmoving. “Oh, it’s so embarrassing. I wish I was dead.” “I know you weren’t,” I mumbled—she didn’t get it, and I was trying not to be frustrated—I took her good hand comfortingly and shot her a that’s-not-funny look. The nurse glanced over anxiously. “Be careful what you wish for, Sari.” “Jeez, am I ...
In Grove Harbor Medical Hospital, just off the highway, a woman with thin, mousy brown hair sat in one of the uncomfortable gray cane chairs lining the hallway. Her daughter, a tiny specimen with small glasses and painful-looking tight pigtails, sat on the floor at her mother’s feet, playing with an old wire-and-bead toy she’d found on a side table. A harried-looking nurse walked over tiredly, her eyes kind and earnest. “Are you alright, hon?” Maybe an odd thing to ask in a hospital waiting room. Maybe a necessity of politeness. Maybe much-n...
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