Sam falls silent for a moment. Right, the scrubs prevent them from even putting a time period on each other. She probably thinks he served with Steve's unit in the war or maybe knew him from Brooklyn. Oh boy, how to explain this. The woman's already been through a lot and she thinks Steve is dead at this point. He's not going to be found, from her perspective, for another 70 years or so. How much should he tell her?
Too much has happened for him to be able to put this together in a nice way, so she's just going to have to be able to handle the blunt version. This day is already crazy enough.
"Okay. So I'm just going to keep being frank with you because I've got no other idea on how to put this. I met Steve about a year ago in 2015. You say he's been gone, and that's true but not in the way you think. It takes some time, but they find him in the ice a few decades from your perspective."
He's a former soldier and worked at the VA for awhile. He knows that news is going to be like a punch to the gut and he knows he should have found a better way to put it. But he'd nearly drowned, woke up in an unknown place, and was talking to a woman who's funeral he'd attended a few days ago. Actually, after saying it, he realizes he probably sounds crazy on top of everything. But he'll cross that bridge based on her reaction.
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Too much has happened for him to be able to put this together in a nice way, so she's just going to have to be able to handle the blunt version. This day is already crazy enough.
"Okay. So I'm just going to keep being frank with you because I've got no other idea on how to put this. I met Steve about a year ago in 2015. You say he's been gone, and that's true but not in the way you think. It takes some time, but they find him in the ice a few decades from your perspective."
He's a former soldier and worked at the VA for awhile. He knows that news is going to be like a punch to the gut and he knows he should have found a better way to put it. But he'd nearly drowned, woke up in an unknown place, and was talking to a woman who's funeral he'd attended a few days ago. Actually, after saying it, he realizes he probably sounds crazy on top of everything. But he'll cross that bridge based on her reaction.