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scious patient hi

needed to be stronger be

sit up, but his core muscles failed him.

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freeze everything until a medical tribunal clears you. That takes week

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now about Jul

d. "And your cousin is

a knock at

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sheets, weak, and helpless. The indignity of being ba

.. I'll do it. I'm already doi

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abbed the basin and tow

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cloth into the warm water. "Would you prefer Ms.

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ured. "I'm not go

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s abdomen. The definition of his abs was

was a doctor. She had seen hundreds of naked bo

wasn't just angry; he was react

upper body and covered

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cas asked

er hands on his

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n the eye, "I have a vested interest in t

elieve her. "Everyone has a pr

ished drying his feet. "But