The Head Nurse Told Me to Check the Camera at 3 A.M. and I Was Not Prepared

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She nodded, the slow nod of someone receiving information they had invested something in, letting it settle. Then she said something I have returned to many times since.

“I’ve been doing this for twenty-six years,” she said. “I’ve learned that the children who most need someone to say something are usually surrounded by people who have already decided continue reading …