Stories, Thoughts and Snippets
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"You could have been a doctor if you wanted, you know that, don't you? A damn good doctor."
"Didn't have the time, didn't have the money."
"It couldn't have been easy coming as far as you have, could it have been much worse to put in a few more years."
"I got where I am with night classes, working every damn day to pay for the classes I was taking in the evenings. Sad as it is you can't be a doctor on night classes."
"You could have taken out some loans, most people do."
"Maybe I still will."
"Are you serious?"
"Hell no, how am I going to go through med-school with two kids to take care of. I think I've gone just about as far as I'm going to in this career."
"Seems a sad waste to me. There aren't that many people in this world that care like you do."
"Well shit. If god wanted me to be a doctor so damn much, maybe he should have given me a little more free time."
"Maybe if there were a god he would have."
"If there weren't a god I don't think I'd see too much reason to help people."
"I don't think you'd stop helping people if you knew for a fact each and every one of us was damned to hell. You haven't got it in you to give up on people."
"Shows what you know. I gave up on a girl just this morning, she walked right out on this sweet old guy that hasn't done a damn thing for the last seventeen years but think about her. He just wants her to be around while he dies, and the selfish little bitch won't even do that. She should be taking care of him, not me."
"It's hard to watch someone you love die. Maybe she can't take it. Maybe it's easier for her to pretend like she doesn't love him."
"Life isn't easy, you do what you have to, she should have learned that from him, he sure as hell didn't need to start raising a child at age 62, but she didn't have anywhere else to go, and he did what he had to."
"I'm not excusing her, I'm just saying that what she's doing is understandable. Especially for a kid, she hasn't seen enough of this life to know how to stand up to it, you learn that the hard way."
"Well if she doesn't learn it after this, she isn't going to."
"Maybe so. Speaking of kids though, how're yours doing?"
"Shawn has started living by the motto that he has wasted a day if he doesn't catch hell about something. I can't wait to get home and find what the adventure was today."
"How old is he now, seven?"
"Almost, he'll be seven in June."
"And Andre is ten then?"
"You've got a good memory for a man. Andre is probably the only thing keeping his brother from burning down the house right now, I don't know what I'd do without that boy."
"You're lucky, at least you've got one good one, that's more than a lot of people end up with."