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By Patrick O’Donnell

SPRING SALE The antiseptic smell of the operating room wasn’t doing
anything to alleviate my fear. The nurses, bless ‘em, were
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of laughter from everyone in the room.
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12 | indulge • may 2017 directly connected to those lives for which I’m responsible.