The cracked mirror was eventually replaced.
The woman reflected in it was not a forgotten footnote, not an embarrassing nurse who had stepped beyond her station, and not the silent survivor someone could remove by deactivating a badge.
She was the medic who had kept four men alive in a basement.
She was the nurse who had recognized a dying heart when everyone else saw only a famous name.
And when the most powerful man in the room had tried to erase her, the truth had opened its own file.
