I was a nursing student the first time I saw a woman give birth. Even though I was young and naive, I was cognizant of the weight of the moment when the baby took its first breath: the thin space where we see the holy and miraculous here on earth. I sometimes reminisce about the special pleasure I felt showing the new dad how to bathe his brandnew baby.
I could also recount the...
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