White Space, #2. I enjoyed this story of space-going EMTs/Doctors very much, except for some of the parts where the characters are thinking.
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Eat carrots and you'll get nice clean poops. If we lived on a plane, I'd tell you about apples--"
"What's an apple?"
"What you eat every dia to keep the doctor away,"
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" [...] Adulthood begins when you look at the mess you've made and realize that the common element in all the terrible things that have gone wrong in your life is you."
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There's something professionally gratifying about being able to gross out a tentacular tree stump who also happens to be one of the galaxy's most experienced trauma surgeons.
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If the truth destroyed it, it needed to go.
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maybe Tsosie is right and I do float through, a little above and to the left of the real world.