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    And there's a bottle of pills, a fifth of vodka, a hospital visit, two weeks of inpatient while your whole family prays for you to get better.
    There's a doctor with blank eyes who never looks at you,
    He's always scribbling things on his clipboard,
    Everything you say, he documents, even when you're not talking to him.
    You don't smoke, but you still go out for smoke breaks with everyone else on the ward because there's nothing else to do but stare at the walls, and wait for the next group session to start.
    So you hang out in the courtyard, not smoking cigarettes but still befriending those who do.
    And there's a man,
    Maybe ten years older than you, with eyes like rough-cut pine and sunset.
    He notices you don't smoke, so he tries to stay downwind from you so he doesn't exhale in your face.
    He tells you "it's okay, bud."
    "We'll get through this and be better when we leave this place than it was when we got here."
    And he's telling you the truth.
    And you believe him.


    like blood from a stone - Old Gray


    or,

    As a teen, William was suicidal.

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