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I Left the Retirement Home That Night. Under Fluorescent Hospital Lights, Everything Changed

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Dorothy was a mask of bruises. Her left eye was swollen completely shut, the skin around it the particular purple-black of deep tissue damage that takes weeks to fully surface. Her arm was in a cast. Her seventh rib was cracked, though I didn’t know that yet — I would read it in the chart. What I could see, what required no chart, were the marks continue reading …

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