“Beautiful.” But he isn’t looking at the necklace.
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Working here has hardened and softened my heart in ways I never guessed it would
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Just as I was forced to become a surgeon, so was he
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I wasn’t made to cut into bodies, stitch wounds, and amputate limbs, but I made myself become that person.
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Every day more of your patients pass away. Each one of them is another regret in your heart
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Life is more than just survival, Salama,” she says.
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“Marriage? In this economy?”
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Okay, I can hear you lying a mile away. Turn around,” I say, and she laughs before doing so.
It’s a rare and precious thing when someone can sense your emotions without you saying anything at all.
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“I know. But I’m not sacrificing you.”
The moment she chose to heal the wounds of every soul abandoned on the streets, she had already given up a part of herself, Layla.
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“Layla, I’m the only pharmacist left in three neighborhoods. If I leave, who will help them? The crying children. The sniper victims. The wounded men.”