I did not sleep Wednesday night.
I lay beside Daniel and listened to him breathe with the slow ease of a man with nothing pressing on his chest and I stared at the ceiling and ran through everything quietly in my head. The bag was packed and pushed behind my winter coats at the back of the wardrobe. Dr Anand had the transfer documents sitting in a folder with Eli's name on it. Angela had texted at ten the night before to say the apartment was ready and the doctor in her city had received Eli's full case file and was prepared for his arrival.
Everything was in place.
I just had to get through one more day without anything showing on my face.
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The morning passed the way mornings did when you were performing normalcy. I got to my desk at eight, opened my inbox, worked through the sche
