We were four minutes from the hospital when his phone rang.
He picked it up in one hand and I saw his face change when he looked at the screen.
He said: it’s the hospital.
He answered on the speaker.
A nurse.
Her voice had a quality that I recognized immediately from twenty-three years of teaching, which is the voice of someone who is holding themselves together in a situation that is requiring all of their professional control.
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