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The palliative care nurses welcome him: he's a spot of brightness, they claim he keeps the patients interested in life. We don't think of the clients here as dying, one of them said to him on his first visit. After all everyone's dying, just some of us more slowly.

Margaret Atwood

The palliative care nurses welcome him: he's a spot of brightness, they claim he keeps the patients interested in life. We don't think of the clients here as dying, one of them said to him on his first visit. After all everyone's dying, just some of us more slowly.

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