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Prologue
There had been a time before here. A time of drinking champagne that cost a hundred dollars a glass while dining off a three-hundred-dollar plate of ribeye. A time where he could perform two flawless craniotomies in a day and still have time to slip downtown to woo a lively blonde or a mysterious brunette – or perhaps both – back to his apartment for the night.
It was a time he had been proud of. He had created his life from scratch – from nothing. Long gone was the musky scent of rich soil after the rain. Never again did he have to face endless fields of ripening crops, gently blowing in the breeze. He had moved on to something greater than the world of his childhood.
But that was then, and this was now.