My Parents Skipped My Medical School Graduation for My Sister’s Cruise and Then My Mom Told Me Not to Be Dramatic

little, which turns out to have been enough.

My mother texted me from a cruise ship that I was not really a doctor yet. She meant it to diminish. Instead it is the sentence I come back to when I need to remember precisely what I was working against and precisely how far I have come from it.

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