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squeezed her hand tight before letting the button slip through her
     fingers into the jacket pocket of her pea coat. She could hear her mother now, telling her she needed to button everything
     on her body.
Oh, Momma.
    “It’s a good luck button too. I tell you ever since I started carrying that thing, I just felt so safe and secure. I figured
     since you’re up here in this big city all alone now, you might need it to keep you safe too.”
    Kimmie Sue smiled and hugged her cousin before piling into the Chrysler. Daisy waved them off and turned back up the street
     to the door to the apartment. It felt odd and strangely lonely inside the apartment she used to share with her mother. She
     had never imagined life without her mother; she never had a reason to. But, now that she was all alone, she knew that life
     without Abigail would be different. Up until this point, she had a mommy and was someone’s child. Now, those things had been
     stripped away, and she was simply Daisy Mae. She looked down at her watch.
    I better get going,
she thought to herself. Knowing Calvin with his constant five, five, five, she didn’t want to be late for her first day at
     the Honey Pot.

GOTCHA
    P lease, excuse me, my patient really needs her rest. I thought I was being polite when I told you that once she is up to visitors
     and police interrogation, I would gladly call you,” said Dr. Sternberger, feeling offended by their disdain for hospital policy.
     He was so riled, he began reaching for the phone to call security. The detectives in front of him would be removed from ICU.
    “I’m sorry, Doctor, I just don’t think you understand the urgency. We really need for her to ID her assailant from some of
     these photos. Really, this is critical, because he’s still out there,” said Detective Delgado, trying to remain calm, not
     curse, throw a tantrum, or, worst case, hurt Dr. Sternberger.
    “Really, Doctor, we just need the opportunity to try. If she can’t then she can’t, but at least, for her sake and her little
     boy’s sake, let us try,” implored Merva, looking into the doctor’s eyes, not understanding him at all. “If someone shot you
     and your son, wouldn’t you want to ID him… if nothing else?”
    “She is our missing link for us to get a killer off the streets and behind bars,” added Detective Delgado.
    The two of them spoke calmly to the doctor, with a hint of urgency. And of course it worked. The doctor gave them five minutes
     alone with his patient. She was still under the watchful eyes of ICU attendants. She had tubes sticking out from her body
     and connected to machines keeping all her vitals and stats for the doctors as they did their rounds. Detective Ross took her
     time talking and speaking to Saunta. Slowly Saunta opened her eyes. She never said one word. She didn’t have to. The look
     of fear that covered her face as Detective Ross flashed Bernard Guess’s head shot in her direction caused her to open her
     eyes as wide as they could go. She pressed back on the pillow and tears formed in her eyes. She looked scared at seeing the
     man’s face.
    “That’s him,” she whispered with a faint breath, reliving the feeling of being gunned down, the bullet entering her chest,
     piercing her rib, and lodging inside her. Leaving her in the Intensive Care Unit. She went into distress. Her blood pressure
     went up and a machine next to her bed started beeping. Dr. Sternberger came rushing into the room.
    “She’s losing pressure. Her heart rate is dropping. We’re losing her!”
    Tommy Delgado and Merva Ross stood over to the side looking like Lenny and Squiggy from
Laverne and Shirley
as they watched the doctors and nurses trying to stabilize their patient.
    “Doctor, she’s flatlined,” said a blond nurse as Merva and Tommy heard a solid, steady tone, instead of the beeps that had
     been the echo of the ICU room.
    “Oh, damn, she’s dead?” questioned Merva as she leaned in and whispered