The simple question hung between us, edged with anger. “Because…” I could see him stiffen at my standard reply even as the words tractor, tractor, tractor echoed in my subconscious and buried even below that, Missssss Bilingual. Right as I might have been, I wasn't ready to play that card yet. “I tried the cows thing, Dan. But I'm not a cow person, horses give me the screaming willies, the chickens give me the creeps. The dog is the only animal I feel comfortable around. I don't know the difference between a cultivator and a combine, and frankly, I don't care. I do know ACLS, how to deal with a stroke victim, and how to assess a burn. I'm comfortable in a hospital emergency department, and there have been days since I've moved here that I wish I was back there. Where I know what I'm doing.” I clamped my lips together to stem the tide of my run-on babbling. I wanted him to understand. Needed him to understand. “I want to go back to work because it's the only place I feel like I belong,”
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