“You’ll Give Him the Wrong Impression of Our Famil…

I set my coffee down on the edge of my desk. “Excuse me?”

“Look, don’t make this a big thing. It’s just that my boyfriend is coming.

Dr. Marcus Chin. He’s a cardiothoracic surgeon at Mass General, and he’s kind of a big deal.

He’s being considered for department head, and I’ve told him about our family. About how successful we all are. Dad’s accounting firm, Mom’s interior design business, me working in pharmaceutical sales…”

She trailed off.

“But not about me,” I said. “Natalie, come on. You know how it is.

You’re thirty-four, still single, living in that tiny apartment, working some hospital job we don’t really understand. Marcus comes from a family of doctors and academics. If he meets you and realizes you’re… well, struggling, it’s going to raise questions about our family.”

I looked across my office at the framed Fortune magazine cover on the wall.

The future of healthcare technology: Meet Dr. Natalie Morrison, 32, whose AI platform is saving lives. Beside it hung the Inc.

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