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 Never Change - Elizabeth Berg
Newest Review: ... have been a few men - not many - but none of them ever stayed around the morning after. She's resigned to spinsterhood. One ... more  ... day the nursing agency call up and asked her to take on a new client - a terminally ill cancer patient by the name of Chip Reardon. In high school Chip was the golden boy - the one all the girls swooned over and all the boys wanted to be. But now, many years later, Chip has a brain tumour and has decided to refuse further treatment. Could this at last be her chance to have him to herself?
Chip has returned home to his parents to see out his last days. His mother wants him to fight the diagnosis, his father's not ...more |
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Never Change - Elizabeth Berg: Loving and losing - it's never too late to change (963 words)
by koshkha - written on 16/02/08 (Very useful, 119 readings)
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At school, Myra Lipinsky was the girl you'd always find in the hallway selling tickets for the prom but never actually AT the prom because nobody invited her. She was the girl that other girls (and sometimes even the boys) told their secrets to because she was 'such a good listener' but nobody ever asked for her secrets, because she didn't have any. After school she trained as a nurse and specialised in intensive care because it was the toughest discipline but she found there was something missing - the patients never said anything, never did anything, they just lay there hooked up to machines. Myra quit intensive care and became a community nurse, taking on ...
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