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Chauffeuring Cissy put Stewie and his case on my mind, so I gave Mike a call to check in. He was still stuck at the hospital and asked me to meet him in the cafeteria.
The Hainey hospital serves all of Stetler County, but it’s a fairly rural county, so the hospital isn’t much to look at. The single-level parking lot has enough acreage to serve a large bank on payday, but it was mostly empty at the moment. Like the traffic on the interstate, things would certainly be picking up at the hospital as the weekend approached.
I’d been a patient here a few months ago (my first hospitalization of the summer, courtesy of the men in masks), but I’d never been in the cafeteria before. Mike sat at the far side, eating from a tray loaded with mashed potatoes, green salad, and something brown and l
