Two Hours and an Empty Chair
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He told me he would be right back. That was the phrase, casual as a yawn, tossed over his shoulder as he stood from the workstation and let his coat fall open. Dr. Aldous Renner. Twenty-two years of practice, a name engraved on the donor wall in the atrium, the kind of man whose handwriting nurses could read where the rest of us produced hieroglyphics. When he said he would be right back, you believed him, the way you believe a man who has spent two decades learning exactly how to look trustworthy.
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