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He was teaching me how to die, just as he’d taught me how to live.

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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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Make something beautiful of your life.
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