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To those you care for, a nurse is a person of many faces: You are a warrior against death and suffering, a technician of the highest degree; you are a mother, a sister, a best friend, a psychiatrist; you are a teacher, a magician, a sounding board, a secretary, a fortuneteller, a politician, but most of all, you are a loving human being who has chosen to give that love in one of the best ways you can.
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lovely young lady is telling you, pal, is, you're cut off. The gravy train just pulled into its last stop. I know the sound of those brakes." I yanked the curtain out of Mr. Rose's hand, scowled, and turned back to Mr. Williams. "What's your number, girl?" he demanded. I almost laughed. As in the prison system, Mr. Williams thought we went by numbers"
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Around midnight I finally dozed, drifting on a 1950 memory where I rode through the dark of another night in the front seat of an old Buick. Curled next to my father, I'd been sleeping when I was awakened by a roar which hurt my ears. I focused on the eerie orange and red light reflecting on my father's face and timidly peeked over the rim of the window. In the distance a barn burned furiously, while a handful of men ran in and out of the f..
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Hark! to the hurried question of Despair"Where is my child?"--An echo answers--"Where?"
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Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.
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Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far,The voice divine of human loyalty.
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Echo waits with art and careAnd will the faults of song repair.
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And more than echoes talk along the walls.
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Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains,And feeds her grief.
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I heard * * *And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff.
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Like--but oh! how different!
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The melancholy ghosts of dead renown,Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause.
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