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reframed the discussion. His question was not about her grief, but about the lingering joys.
To ease the pain of those who suffer To repair the bodies of those who are ill To restore the minds of those in need
“I can only hope that this new world is kinder to women like us than the old one.”
Sometimes, no matter what we do, a person’s time on this earth must end.
she decided that, for the first time in years, she felt as if there might just be a bit of magic left in the world.
deeply, but he didn’t want to marry me. He was adamant that he would never marry a woman with a talent that rivaled his own.
After eighty-one years and two failed love elixirs, Augusta Stern knew exactly who she was—a woman of science like her father, an old-world healer like her aunt. She believed in medicine and in miracles. She believed in family and in love.
