CHAPTER 26
A NURSE CAME IN SOMETIME in the middle of the night and recorded Kennedy’s vitals. Whatever medicines they had given her were starting to wear off, and she itched and tried to get comfortable for another hour before dozing off again. In the morning, a nurse checked her bandages one last time and told her she would get her discharge papers ready. “Your pastor said he’d come pick you up in about an hour.”
Kennedy wondered what it would be like to go back to the real world after an ordeal like this. Would she ever feel safe on the streets of Cambridge again? Would she ever feel safe in her own dorm? She thought about the pregnancy center, about the big Thursday dinner that would go on as if none of this had happened. Could people really go on living in such blissful ignorance? Sh
