But it worked out quite well anyway , and I find myself thinking maybe that is fate . Maybe somehow my hubris with my other older , Polish patient who suffered such a terrible loss , maybe somehow I provoked the fates to turn on us . I say us because I know my suffering was nothing like hers , but was a suffering still .

[+] The Polish person just lost a job .; [+] None of the above choices .; [+] The Polish person just lost a major hobby .; [+] The Polish person just lost a family member .;
Q: Why does the narrator have such empathy for the Polish person ?
The Polish person just lost a family member .