A half-finished cup of water sat nearby. Laundry was waiting in a basket. Newborn blankets were folded on a chair. A few groceries were still on the kitchen counter.
It looked like a home where somebody had expected to get up again in a few minutes.
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She simply hadn’t.
When the ambulance finally pulled away from the house, the little key the girl had surrendered at the emergency room was still with the paramedic who had opened the door.
He kept it carefully separated from the rest of his equipment.
Back at the hospital, the girl had moved her chair as close as the nurses would allow to the hallway leading toward the twins.
She had accepted water after one nurse promised that nobody was going to forget her mother.
Food was harder.
A sandwich sat unopened beside her while she watched every pair of scrubs passing the doorway.
