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"Let my words, like vegetables, be tender and sweet, for tomorrow I may have to eat them." Author Unknown

Molly Riese was looking forward to having dinner with her parents before work one night last February. But the prospect of a pleasant evening quickly[...]

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"Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." Marcus Tullius Cicero

The patient was perhaps four years old and did not speak English. He tensed with fear as he and his family entered the procedure room[...]