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The phone call that would shatter my carefully constructed world came on an ordinary Friday morning while I was getting ready for another twelve-hour shift at St. Mary’s Hospital. I […]
The morning I brought Beau home from the animal rescue, he weighed forty-three pounds and had a scar running down his left flank that the veterinarians said would fade but […]
I never imagined that heartbreak could arrive dressed in silk and lace, served alongside champagne and wedding cake, but there I was, sitting in the third row at my younger […]
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