Two years in hospice taught me something I can’t unsee: we are capable of incredible, radical humanity but somehow, we save it for the very end. When the noise fades, when the timelines stop, when someone is finally seen as a person instead of a problem to solve. Not long ago, something shifted for me. I found myself sitting across from the medical engineers behind the valve that saved my life, the people who helped create my second chance. I listened as they reflected my sto
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"If no one else was telling their story, then maybe I needed to tell mine. And maybe, just maybe, that would give others permission to share theirs too."