Sophia
I flew to Chicago on a Tuesday, alone, at Harold's insistence that I see the actual site and meet the Voss Development team in person before making any decisions, and I spent the entire flight staring out the window trying to sort through a tangle of feelings I hadn't fully untangled since that conversation on Mark's couch.
The site itself was impressive, I had to admit. A children's hospital on the north side of the city, aging and outdated, the kind of institutional space that made my design instincts light up with possibility the moment I walked through it. The Voss team was sharp, well-funded, genuinely excited about the vision I'd built for the Sullivan wing and eager to see what I could do with three times the budget and twice the square footage.
"We'd want you leading the
