To Be Honest

Local woman Ellie Guzman was observed this Friday nodding and smiling as her friends judged her life choices. Shortly thereafter, she received a call from the mayor’s office offering her the Key to the City for astounding bravery.

My circumstances hadn’t changed, but my state of mind had.

I love this woman and her curvy, fluffy, chunky, thick body. I’m not going to say fat.

Though the corridor sits in one of the most socioeconomically disadvantaged parts of Los Angeles, and though Salvadorans make up one of the poorest populations in the United States, with a median earning of $20,000 a year, money wired from here keeps the home country going.

This is a story written during one of the darkest times in my old ER job, which I ultimately left. This sat in my drafts for a long time, and every time I look at it I wonder what became of this patient.