The brake failure occurred on Tuesday night late October, on the Saw Mill River Parkway, at sixty miles per hour, between exits with no shoulder wide enough to be 'adequate, ' and the guardrail closer than she would have liked.
They were coming back from a specialist appointment that Adrian had set up as a maternal-fetal medicine consultant he had found through the hospital's academic medical center, which is the type of second opinion that only comes about after a person has done a lot of research and placed a lot of calls. She didn't ask him for it. He didn't tell her he was doing it. It just appeared on the calendar as a fact of the day, just like the yogurt appeared and the better chair appeared and all the other things appeared that he did without turning them into a discussion.
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