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Nicaragua: Giving Birth along the River

I can’t imagine giving birth in a jungle. Picture yourself, however, as the typical girl in the Rio San Juan…
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Knowing me, some friends were surprised to hear I was headed to the jungles of Nicaragua. Who could blame them?…
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The Rio San Juan area of Nicaragua is such a poor area that health care opportunities are far flung or…
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I didn’t realize for a long time that we had a blind dog, nor that I had become a seeing-eye…
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My dog Suzie is blind. It seemed to come on quickly. From the time I first questioned whether she might…
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I grew up in a community of multi-lingual people, or polyglots. My own mother, born in Sicily, spoke Italian as…
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