All shall be well, all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well. How could she believe that? How could anyone believe it, faced with the imminent death of someone they loved? Because every individual being, from a flower to a child, is of concern to the creator of life. Those words, penned nearly a thousand years ago, had been a touchstone for Rose since her student days. The note at the front of the book said that Julian of Norwich had not always been a nun, that there were hints in her writing of an earlier life as a wife and mother, and that she had possibly lost her family in
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