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The following day in my office I was still as bewildered as a person lost in a cornfield with no sense of direction. I called the hospital, hoping that Cole had come out of the coma and might shine some light on what happened, and was told that there had been no change. I needed to know more. I was meeting Reggie tomorrow to check out Lara’s apartment, but that seemed like such a long time in the future. I had a full morning of four patients to get ready for and tried to focus on them.
Grace entered my office with her watering can. I have two plants in my office: a spider plant and a painted leaf begonia, both given to me by my secretary who has a green thumb. She began to water the plants. I thought I saw her water those the other day.
“Didn’t you just water those the other day?” I a
