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I was doing really well with the whole living in America, being a med student living in the now, being content till about 2 days ago. I was in the grocery store minding my own business and then from no where they appeared a bag of cherries. BIG RED CHERRIES…. Way back when ( Read more... )

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Why does the sacred have to be confined to places of worship? I recently realized my most sacred moments in life rarely happen in church. For example recently…

Holding the hand of a child as they fall asleep.

Watching my grandparents celebrate 50 years surrounded by their ( Read more... )

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I got a congrats on my Facebook today and I didn’t know what I was being congratulated for. I had surfaced online for the first time in days. I open my school account and find 10 e-mails. Turns out my presentation for my medicine for the underserved elective was voted the ( Read more... )

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you offically know your disease is freaking rare when you know all the spokes people worldwide personally….

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/closeup/rare_diseases.shtml

Scroll down about half the ( Read more... )

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When I am stressed I have the strangest dreams. Usually these dreams are very vivid and typically they are all about me. I am some sort of crazy predictment running or falling or being consumed by some terrible illness or chased. When one is stresed, one is pretty self- ( Read more... )

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Top 10 things people say to me:

1. Oh so are you from there?

2. Like where Dracula is from? Are there bats there?
3. Is Belarus in South America?

4. Have you seen that movie where they get shot down over Bonsia? Is it like that?

5. Do you like cabbage?

6.  Are you a ( Read more... )

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I must still have a heart after all because the irony is making it hurt.

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I have been having one of those weeks where I can’t get Eastern Europe out of my brain…I know I am the only person who has this problem but deal with it.

There was fresh parsley in my soup the other day and I stopped mid conversation as I tasted the familiar taste.

I nearly ( Read more... )

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This e-mail arrived in my box this morning from the British lady who I met on the airplane who just started working with one of my kids in Romania, Aurel( beautiful 9 yr old who is blind and deaf, has Sticklers’ Syndrome and gets minimum human contact):

Hi Amy,

Thank you so ( Read more... )

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I have spent three summers working overseas with disabled children and never once did my church at home ask me to talk about it beyond speaking to the youth group. It never really bothered me too much but I was always a little saddened by it because it reflected so much that ( Read more... )