RESEARCH Ariel pops up and heads to the kitchen for the bottle of wine and three glasses. “I’ll also get some cheese while you two begin,” she says. “So tell me about your research,” I say. “One day over at the hospital I opened a wrong door by accident and found one of the hospital’s best surgeons weeping in the closet. He had just lost a little girl in surgery. Like the compassionate person he was, he had sat with the family for over an hour absorbing their pain. Then he left them with the chaplain. No one noticed him entering the closet.” “I guess people are so focused on the family of the person who has died that they … Continue reading
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