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When Hannah finally held her baby again, her hands shook so badly a nurse had to steady her arms. She kept whispering, “You’re here. You’re really here.”
Mark stood beside me, exhausted, haunted. “People think monsters look obvious,” he said quietly. “Most of the time, they wear scrubs and carry clipboards.”
The hospital is under federal investigation now. Arrests were made. Lawsuits filed. Hannah and her baby are safe.
But none of us left unchanged.
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