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It's unexpected, the hitch in his hallow 24 years, when a man with a white coat offers his aid. A man who knows that his very being is a deformed act of unfettered psychosis and ceaseless suffering, no telling which would spill across his usual phlegmatic face next.
Help remains a foreign concept to the young nursing student, still, only one year remains until he is certified to walk the same halls as the man in the white coat. Surely, taking his hand could be a risk that would reveal prosperity, in the end.