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    There had been people once: her Appa, Amma before grief hollowed them both out and forced them into survival. There'd been a version of her childhood where she wasn't responsible for holding herself together, but that life felt impossibly far away now. It was more dream than memory, something glimpsed through frosted glass, or written in a language she was no longer fluent in. Sometimes, she even thought she'd imagined it entirely.

    And then Jack would do something — open a door for her, remember how she took her coffee, reach for the back of her neck when she was overwhelmed — and she would be startled all over again by the realization that being cared for used to feel familiar.

    a.k.a. Dr. Samira Mohan has a mild concussion, a split-brow, and no idea how to let someone care for her.

    title credits: "Promises" by Luke Hemmings

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