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They put her in a hospital gown but it doesn't cover her legs, doesn't cover what she doesn't want to see, and they've noticed now that she isn't looking, they've noticed that she keeps turning her head away, that she's shaking and panicked and sick with helplessness. Did someone do this, they ask, do you want a social worker, can you tell us what happened.

I was in a car accident, she thinks. I was in a car accident almost two years ago. I'm better now.

But she isn't.