One year after my divorce, I ran into my ex-husband in the pediatric wing of the hospital where I worked

She said: “Right. Well. Write down the date you decided that, because you’ll want to know it later.”

I thought she was being dramatic.

I wrote it on the back of an envelope that night out of pure irritation — 17/7/23, told W no — and put it in the drawer with the resignation letter, and forgot about it for two years.

Hollis Quayle has that envelope now. It is in a bundle, with a page number, as evidence of when I formed the belief and what I did about it, which goes to the question of why I signed in the February.

My sister, who is a dental nurse in Ellery and has never been inside a courtroom, told me in a kitchen in 2023 to write the date down.

Where things are.

I went back to clinical work on the eleventh of August, 2024, in a paediatric outpatient clinic, with a mentor sitting in for the first six weeks, which was not required and which I asked for.

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