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Mila

“She looked like she was going to faint when I took her with me to clean Mr. Hendricks’s stitches.”

They all laughed.

“What do you think?” Claire asked me.

“About what?” I sat down with them and opened my sandwich.

“About Danielle, the new nurse. Have you met her?”

I shook my head. I’d seen her around, but she had been shadowing the other nurses and seemed shy and unsure.

“She’s so green. I’m sure she’ll cry if you look at her wrong,” someone said.

“We’re placing bets on how long she’ll last.”

My mouth dropped. “That’s a bit rude, isn’t it? We all started somewhere.”

“It takes a lot to do this, you know that Mila,” Claire said. “Not everyone has what it takes.”

I couldn’t disagree with that, but we had all learned how to cope with the horrors we saw here every day. If this new nurse had a passion for helping people, she would make it through.

Suddenly, I wondered if nurses had bet on whether I would survive as well. I had started in the ICU ward in the same way. It was a hard pla
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