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Author Archives: Walter Robinson

Nurse Clappy Gets His

May 1, 2014

Walter Robinson

  A twelve-year-old girl, her hair pulled into a messy ponytail, waits for anyone other than me to walk by the glass walls of her hospital isolation room. She half-sits half-lies on a high mechanical bed with hard gray plastic rails; seven days … Continued

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