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    Samira’s bones ached with the kind of exhaustion that went beyond muscle and marrow — it was the kind that lived behind the eyes, that pressed into the soul. The fluorescent lights of the hospital still lingered in her vision even after the elevator ride, even after the walk home through the chilled Pittsburgh night. Her fingers were still trembling faintly from the endless charting, the alarms, the sterile smell of antiseptic that clung to her like a second skin.
    She had always thought she could handle everything on her own. That had been the rule she built her life around — never rely, never need, never ask. It had gotten her through med school, through New York, through four months of days that bled into nights and nights that ended in cold cafeteria coffee. But it had also hollowed her out.
    And then there was Jack.

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