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Humor was the number one coping mechanism in the ER. If we could find a way to smile and laugh after witnessing so much pain and suffering, we knew we could handle the stress and trauma that confronted us every day. When one lost the
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“Genealogy becomes a mania, an obsessive struggle to penetrate the past and snatch meaning from an infinity of names. At some point the search becomes futile – there is nothing left to find, no meaning to be dredged out of old receipts, newspaper articles, letters, accounts of events that seemed so important fifty or seventy years ago. All that remains is the insane urge to keep looking, insane because the searcher has no idea what he seeks. What will it be? A photograph? A will? A fragment of a letter? The only way to find out is to look at everything, because it is often when the searcher has gone far beyond the border of futility that he finds the object he never knew he was looking for.”
― The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White
― The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White
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