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Post by Megan on Jul 14, 2015 1:00:08 GMT -5
She laughed.
"Better already. I suppose now I might as well confess that it was mostly pathological dermatology, with a side specialty in osteopathology. But it's still good for avoiding a hangover."
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Post by Dr. Connors on Jul 14, 2015 1:20:48 GMT -5
"Still useful specializations. I'm a doctor, of course, but not that kind of doctor."
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Post by Megan on Jul 15, 2015 11:59:40 GMT -5
"I wasn't training in those, I just... got good at them."
She smiled half-heartedly.
"Not that it really matters now."
On closer inspection, the dots on her white dress alternated with tiny grinning skulls.
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Post by Dr. Connors on Jul 29, 2015 13:15:52 GMT -5
"It's good for young people to have hobbies."
Somehow all of Curt's had dovetailed into his disaster of a career. Aside from his taste in music, but it was just a matter of time.
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Post by Megan on Aug 11, 2015 22:04:52 GMT -5
"What, sitting up at night reading about skin diseases and bone abnormalities?"
She started to laugh, then stopped, a little embarrassed.
"I mean- oh, God, I must sound incredibly morbid."
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Post by Dr. Connors on Aug 13, 2015 23:45:47 GMT -5
"When I was your age, I was something of a--" Curt coughed a little, mostly from excruciatingly dry embarrassment, though the liquor hadn't helped. "Lizard fancier. So all things considered, you're doing well."
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Post by Megan on Aug 13, 2015 23:53:58 GMT -5
"...but lizards are cute, not... faintly horrific."
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Post by Dr. Connors on Aug 13, 2015 23:56:06 GMT -5
"Try telling my mother that. We had an infestation."
At the time it had seemed like a perfectly reasonable number of live specimens -- and in reality he'd been younger than the girl likely was, when he'd still been well enough to handle animals or even to have the inclination for it -- but in retrospect, as the parent of a young child himself, he had to cringe.
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Post by Megan on Aug 14, 2015 0:30:59 GMT -5
She laughed.
"And not the kind with the little eyelash bumps, I imagine."
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Post by Dr. Connors on Aug 14, 2015 8:07:00 GMT -5
Curt laughed bleakly.
"They got into all the laundry and needed rescuing."
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Post by Megan on Aug 14, 2015 8:12:37 GMT -5
"Oh no, but that's adorable-"
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