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They left, defeated by their own greed, leaving me standing in the cold station with a folder that changed my life and a dog that had saved it.
I didn’t buy a mansion or a fleet of cars. I kept my job at the hospital, but I donated enough to build a new pediatric wing. I bought a house with a massive, fenced-in yard where Berta could spend her final years napping in the sun. Grandma was right—I was a nurse, and I knew how to fix things. And with her help, I fixed everything I could.
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