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“He ca to Dom His wife named him that”

“Doave him to you?”

Eli nodded “After Dom found me…”

His voice trailed off for aBut then he seeht hi panic attacks Baby was able to bring ht my mom back to Seattle and helped us find a place to live, he told ive Baby all the attention he needed and asked me if I’d take care of him for a while”

“He sounds like a great guy,” I said softly

“He is…they all are”

“They?”

“Do fah

“I’ll bet you missed them when you left”

Eli glanced at me “You know about that?”

I was glad that he didn’t appear angry at the reminder of the research I’d done on hiot e a couple years later Johns Hopkins, right?”

Eli nodded “Yeah, they had a great pre-ram”

“And a great o to ot accepted to one of the finest medical schools in the country and your mom and her husband had moved to DC…”

There was a slight pause as Eli worked, but he didn’t look at me and it took him a while to answer He finally said, “It’s a different world out there”

I waited for him to expand on his statereen onions