How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country.
("Cutting for Stone")
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When he recalls it in later years, he will wonder if he is distorting it, embellishing it, because each time he consciously recalls her, that forms a new memory, a new imprint to be stacked on top of the previous one. He fears that too much handling will make it crumble.
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