It Should Have Been Me

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ALICE   It feels as if I am in a movie. As the character runs towards the hospital room in slow motion. I hear the dramatic music in the background and I, as a viewer, realize that something big is coming. I hear my heart pounding in my ears, loudly.   I have been a doctor for many years and I have seen the worst of the worst. Even my time on the island was challenging and I saw things I never thought I would. But here I am standing right in front of the room of the man that quite possibly is the man of my dreams. I heard him scream in a painful panic not once but almost constantly.   I am trying to compose myself and I try to keep my eyes from showing my tears. I take a deep breath and shake myself into being a doctor and not a girlfriend. I run into his room and watch as the nurses

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