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Several years ago, a physician from southern France contacted me. His granddaughter had taken ill with a disease that baffled the physicians there. He...
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"You won't forget to bring the potato masher, will you?" I said to my mother on the phone after telling her I had to have a mastectomy. ...
One of the requirements of every commencement speaker is that they offer some advice. Well, get ready, It here it comes.Soon you will be leaving the c...