set up an automatic transfer so it would never happen again.
She said that would be best.
Then we hung up like a bank and its customer.
What embarrasses me now isn’t that she said it.
People reveal themselves all the time.
That part costs nothing.
What shames me is that I spent the drive to work agreeing with her.
Planning better alarms.
Better systems.
Ways to make sure my exhaustion never inconvenienced anyone again.
I was twenty-nine, apologizing for sleeping after spending the night keeping strangers alive.
It would
