If You Believe in Me
“And they sucked ass. Unlike the dream-memories of his best Amber moments, these were full of anxiety and desperation. Worse, they made it impossible to convince the doctors he was well enough to be shipped stateside.
He did everything the nurses told him to, despite the instincts that urged him to get out of bed and run a few miles to prove he was fine. He took his antibiotics, drank gallons of whatever they gave him, forced down food he had no appetite for—every bite making him miss Amber’...s cooking even more—and slept as much he could.
And dreamed.
His father loved to tell stories. “Frank was so mad at the guy just standing around, he asked how much he made a week. The guy said about three hundred dollars, so Frank peeled that out of his money clip, shoved it in his hand, and said, ‘take it, and you’re fired!’ When he asked the supervisor how long he’d been working there, the guy told him he didn’t!MoreLess
He did everything the nurses told him to, despite the instincts that urged him to get out of bed and run a few miles to prove he was fine. He took his antibiotics, drank gallons of whatever they gave him, forced down food he had no appetite for—every bite making him miss Amber’...s cooking even more—and slept as much he could.
And dreamed.
His father loved to tell stories. “Frank was so mad at the guy just standing around, he asked how much he made a week. The guy said about three hundred dollars, so Frank peeled that out of his money clip, shoved it in his hand, and said, ‘take it, and you’re fired!’ When he asked the supervisor how long he’d been working there, the guy told him he didn’t!MoreLess
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