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Elizabeth Blackwell had no interest in medicine until a friend of hers died from what was most likely ..
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Thousands of years before the United States or Canada were countries, hundreds of groups of people lived ..
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A noise-speckled security camera image of a dark room. The angle is from a high corner, looking down ..
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Once upon a time, women weren’t allowed to compete in the Olympic Games. The president of the International ..
I run up the stairs and lock myself in Mom’s closet. As I sit there, squished between her soft sweaters ..
Wednesday, October 18, 2000 Ti liv mwen, my sweet little book. How wonderful to have your crisp white ..
