NOBODY FROM MY FAMILY CAME TO MY GRADUATION

of overnight clinicals, double shifts at the campus café, and a thesis on pediatric trauma care that my advisor called “publishable.” I didn’t sleep more than four hours a night for two straight semesters. I’m not saying that for sympathy. I’m saying it because context matters for what comes next.

My family promised they’d be there. All of them.

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