[The nurses look when he steps forward to take her hands. It's not unusual to see him talking to a woman in the hospital corridors, but he rarely smiles at any of them in the way he's smiling now.]
Happy birthday. And you should have said.
[What has he given her? An old T-shirt he's kept from his college years, part of the crumpled ensemble he was wearing when he fell through into the City a second time. It doesn't seem like much.]
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Happy birthday. And you should have said.
[What has he given her? An old T-shirt he's kept from his college years, part of the crumpled ensemble he was wearing when he fell through into the City a second time. It doesn't seem like much.]