Why Marie had started taking her lunch break with you, you couldn't be sure. She'd simply invited herself to your table one day, and she had never left.

You absentmindedly flipped through a patient's file in the hospital cafeteria when Marie appeared, tray in hand.

"You will never believe what just happened."

She begins with a tone of conspiracy, seating herself across from you. The scene was all too reminiscent of a high school lunch table.