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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.

Abraham Verghese

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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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