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Monologue In Nursing

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A veteran sits next to his brain-dead wife. A small screwdriver, like the one you use to repair your glasses, turns in his sweating fingers. His lips tell us he is praying as he stares at her ventilator.
Across the hall Miguel siphons-off morphine from his mother’s drip. She is dying from cancer in her liver, stomach and esophagus. Stage Four.
At the floor’s overly decorated nurse’s station the staff waits for 12-midnight of this New Year’s Eve. The new year’s start is going to echo with death. And
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