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Sometimes you read a book and as you read you form in your head how you are going to approach a review or thoughts on it and as you continue on these change and new ways come to mind. But then you finish and your mind is left, I can't say blank but more so numb with so much thoughts, feelings that the words are not there, they refuse to make themselves known. So when it comes to sharing them you're at a loss.
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Answer: I don't know...
Sometimes you read a book and as you read you form in your head how you are going to approach a review or thoughts on it and as you continue on these change and new ways come to mind. But then you finish and your mind is left, I can't say blank but more so numb with so much thoughts, feelings that the words are not there, they refuse to make themselves known. So when it comes to sharing them you're at a loss.
When I first picked up this book, I ...more
Thirty-one-year-old Kathy H. is a "carer," a nurse of sorts for patients called donors. As the story's narrator she fills us in on her job: the duties, the patients, the emotional strategies she employs. Her reflections could be that of a contemporary "traveling nurse." Except terms slip into her story that don't quite align with the normal run of nursing. The name "Hailsham" appears and Kathy's story starts to gravitate around it. Kathy informs us that Hailsham was a school she attended, and th
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