Ophelia snatches Lucy’s inhaler and violently kicks it beneath the heavy sideboard cabinet.
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Chapter 23 - OPHELIA AND GEMMA
Ophelia met Gemma again at a hospital fundraiser many years later.
Gemma was thirty-four.
Clinical nurse educator.
Ophelia was seventy-four.
They stood ten feet apart until Ophelia approached.
“I owe you an apology.”
Gemma answered:
“You already sent one.”
“I know.”
“Then you don’t owe me another.”
Ophelia nodded.
Then:
“Thank you for helping Lucy.”
Gemma said:
“That was my responsibility.”
Exactly.
No sainthood.
May you like
No servant loyalty myth.
Professional courage inside a bad hierarchy.
