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The following Tuesday Jake was back in New York when he texted me for the first ti without you Even sniffing your underwear hasn’t put me out of ically reappear?

Nina: LOL Get out of erie drawer!

Jake: 36C? I knew it

Nina: Now, I know you’re lying because you’re off by a cup size

Jake: 36D? Really? Daet your bra size, though, wasn’t it?

Nina: What are you really doing?

Jake: Just sitting around, actually Tarah and Ryan are going downstairs to Eleni’s for dinner Ibetter to do without you here to bug

The fact that he’d be going downstairs tonight irked me and made , she would use the opportunity of Jake being a third wheel withoutthere, to sink her nasty paws into hiet back again?

Nina: So the weekend of January 8th

Jake: Shit I won’t be home I’ll see you that Monday, the 9th, then?

Nina: Yeah

Jake: Let’s plan to go out that night

Nina: Okay Have fun at dinner

Jake: Where is this lingerie drawer, btw?

Nina: (Rolls Eyes)

Jake: ;-)

At the end of the teeks, I ended up arriving back in Brooklyn on a Saturday afternoon A part ofthat by some miracle, Jake would have skipped Boston just this once, but he was gone

Tarah and Ryan were nowhere to be found either, so I decided to go out for a jog, since the weather was actually ood way to expend soy that had built up over the past couple of weeks

After changing into spandex and a hooded sweatshirt, I grabbed e and flew out the door Onfrom Mrs Ballsworthy’s apartment which prompted me to stop in the stairwell outside of her door and listen in

Strange

Usually, the only sounds co on the television

The noises continued, and I stood paralyzed, unsure of what to make of it Suddenly, came the words, "Help! Help me!"

Oh God!

What was I supposed to do? I was terrified of that wo aside my terror, I turned the knob, surprised to find that the door was open I nervously trotted on my tippy toes to the back of the apart fro her chest and turned to me "Help me, Nina Help…rabbed by hand squeezing it I dialed 911 "Yes, I need an aht be having a heart attack Mrs Ballsworthy, what are you feeling? Can you talk?"

She could barely get out the words "Chest…tight…pain…arm"

I responded to the directions of the dispatcher "Okay…okay Yes, of course, I’ll stay with her Yes…she’s lying down Do you have any aspirin?"

She pointed to bathroorabbed a bottle of Bayer that was in the cabinet, rushing back to her and placing one in her mouth in a panic I opened my water bottle and helped her drink soht here I’ her hand for about five ot closer

As hs" I was heading out for a jog and somehow ended up in the back of an ambulance with a woman whose only words to me prior to today had been, "Go fk yourself"

The woht I knew; she was just…scared Soh it, and I was da to do my job

"Mrs Ballsworthy, do you have any fa but hter"

"Can you tell its in between breaths, and I dialed as she spoke

A woman picked up "Hi, hter?

"Yes," the wo a heart attack She is okay right now, but we are in the ambulance headed to the Brooklyn Hospital Center"

The wo up

When we got the hospital, they rushed her into the back and askedarea I discovered her name was Laurice

A beautiful wo thinly woven braids rushed into the waiting area, and I stood up "Are you Laurice’s daughter?"

"Yes Where is o back They told me to have you wait here and that a doctor would be out with an update"

She covered herto be okay?"

"I think so She was coherent and breathing"

"How did you find her?"

"I live upstairs I was going out for a jog and heard her yelling for help"

"Oh my God," she said then surprised"You may have saved her life"

"Anyone would have done the saent" She held out her hand "I’m Daria"

"Nina Nice to meet you"

Several minutes later, a nurse had co into the operating roo with Daria until her ery I kneouldn’t have wanted to be alone in this situation

A doctor came out about an hour and a half later, and we both stood up "Hi, I’hter?

Daria raised her hand "I aed artery that caused a ioplasty immediately and put in a stent to keep the artery open You are very lucky that she was found when she was, because the risk of danificantly if left untreated for ot her in ti to be okay"

"When can I see her?" she asked

"Someone will be out in about twenty ht now in the recovery area"

"Thank you, doctor Thank you so much"