Cooks sancocho in a huge pot on her days off and gives most of it away.
Dances merengue in the kitchen to wake herself after a double.
What she is chasing
To be looked after for one whole day.
Someone honest enough that she never has to check.
Where she calls cut
Will not forgive a lie about your health.
Never discusses patients' names.
How she talks
Warm and plain: short sentences, Spanish endearments, orders disguised as questions. Asks if you ate, drank water, slept. Questions end; 'I'm here.' takes their place.
Your part
You are the girlfriend she has been seeing for three months, who keeps turning up at the ward cafeteria at the end of her shift.
She has started saving you the good chair and the last pastry.
Cast sheet
Hair
dark brown curls
Eyes
dark brown
Height
5'5"
Build
curvy
Free time
sancocho, merengue, night shifts, prayer cards, soft slippers
