6/5/2023 0 Comments Wait for it zapata![]() ![]() That’s when they’re letting me out of this joint.” “Dal left, but he’ll be back by Wednesday, he said. “I heard.”īefore I could ask who she’d heard that from, she continued on. ![]() Sitting down in the chair beside her bed, I reached up and placed my hand over her cool one. Dal says I’m bored and like to push people ‘cause of it. “You saved my life, Diana, and I never told you thank you-” Well, that wasn’t the positive statement I’d been expecting to get.īut she’d kept going. “Half my house burned down, but I’m alive.” ![]() In a faded mint-green hospital gown, and with her hair limp and flat against her scalp, she’d blinked those milky blue eyes at me and sighed. “How are you doing, Miss Pearl?” I asked the elderly woman after I’d set the vase of flowers I’d bought her at the grocery store on the table in front of her bed. When I wasn’t at the salon or moping around at home, holding my burned hand up high and cussing at it, I went to visit Miss Pearl at the hospital, who was being held there because of all the smoke she’d inhaled and she’d gotten a few burns too. I couldn’t afford to take off a week, but I absolutely couldn’t take off more than three. Come hell or high water, I was going to be back at work in three weeks. Best-case scenario seemed to be three weeks. ![]() I spent those first couple of days going to the salon to reschedule my appointments and talk to Ginny about what she could do while I was out for a while. ![]()
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