Day Ten: Upset

The heat surged through her skin, her eyes squeezed tight as hot tears streamed down her cheeks. She had worked too hard, studied for too long, achieved too much for all the credit to go to her husband.

“No,” she said, once she had gathered herself and returned to the meeting. “My name is staying the way it is. My husband didn’t go to medical school. I did.”

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