A woman seeks to learn information about her birth parents in China – are they alive? Do they ever think about her? A man wants to confirm that his former pet bearded dragon, which he gave up for adoption, is OK. Another woman, a doctor, has thought for decades about a 10-year-old girl she tried to save on one of her first days of residency, the victim of a drive-by shooting – “how is she?” A young man hopes for guidance in this messy, confusing, exhausting business of being alive.
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