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Chapter 24: Swindled
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2023-02-09 16:00:27Three years ago...
The San Lorenzo Hospital was very busy that afternoon. You can hear the doors continuously sliding open and shut every time a patient comes in and out. The sound of the furnace, the air exchanger, and the keyboard clacking can all be heard coming from the reception area. Along with the low-pitched conversations in the waiting area, you can also hear the screams, cries, groans, gasps, grunts, and hisses of anguish coming from the patients in the emergency room. The intercom calls out codes and directions, and the squeaky wheelchairs pass by the corridors.
"Help. Please, we need help!" Ella, the young girl, begs as she carries her father over her shoulder.
While their mother, Lucita, was standing just behind them sobbing aloud, Ella's older brother, Lucas, was carrying their father on the opposite side. They went straight to the reception area to get some assistance. When the nu
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