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Оглавление“You’ve had patients more reluctant than me?”
“Oh, yes,” she said with a definite nod. “There are more people who don’t like to admit they need help.”
“It’s hard,” he admitted. “I didn’t want to admit in front of you that I wasn’t as strong as I used to be. That I was weak.”
“I’ve always thought that it takes great strength of character for anyone to recognize honestly what they can and can’t do.” She gave him an encouraging smile. “Some take longer than others, but you did come to that point, and I think that’s honorable and manly.”
“I think what I struggled with most was I felt I wasn’t the man I used to be.”
“None of us are what we used to be,” she said. “We’ve both come through our lives with wounds mental as well as physical.”
“What wounds do you carry?”
Her heart suddenly felt as if it was pushing heavily against her chest, filling it with its racing beat. She took a slow breath. Should she tell him now?
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