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From numbers to names in a forgotten graveyard

The facts are reported with such care, it is as if the researchers wore gloves to cradle the details.

Elissa Ely

At a certain age, the parts of a single body that have lived in harmony for years start to separate and insist on their own specialists, and one...

When the brothers stroll down the hall to chat before exams at this optometrist’s office, no one is surprised. The personal is part of the treatment.

It was a comfort to watch the owl calmly watching us. Then one day he was gone.

My mother is gone. How does one speak to a listener who can no longer hear?

With this question, we were companions; it was a door she opened for the two of us to walk through together.

The visual and physical exam is no longer valued as the great diagnostic tool.