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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

Abraham Verghese

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Being the first born gives you great patience.
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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