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Nicholas Boothman
NO BANKING. NO FULL HEALTHCARE. NO BENEFITS. NO WORK CLEARANCE. NO SCHOOL RECORDS.
Henry swallowed.
“That isn’t what we intended.”
The man stared at him.
Then wrote:
INTENTION IS LEVEL THREE LANGUAGE. Henry had no answer.
They walked deeper into the warehouse.
A little girl lay on a mattress near the medical corner. Seven or eight years old. Her skin had the grayish tint of a child who had been sick too long. Her mother sat beside her, one hand resting on the girl’s forehead.
The man wrote:
MARTINEZ FAMILY.
Then:
DAUGHTER HAS DIABETES. NEEDS INSULIN.
Henry looked at the child.
The man continued.
PARENTS UNDOCUMENTED. LEVEL TWO FLAGS THEM. LEVEL ONE BLOCKS CARE.
The mother looked at Henry. She did not plead.
That made it worse.
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