The Beautiful Hospice Nurse

Patsy Starke
Sep 2, 2018 · 1 min read
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That Beautiful Hospice Nurse. She often stumbled and even fell. Her wounds were many. Some you could see. Others were deep. Then there were the scars.

She smiled wholeheartedly when any comments were made. “I was made for this vocation,” she would say. “Yes sir! forged and tempered like a precision tool, to cut through the ugliness of death to find and love the human-being it is trying to conquer.

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Patsy Starke

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Registered Nurse, Transgender Woman In a lifelong transition, Parent, Grandparent, Normal every day run of the mill person, realizing my place here.

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