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David Means Reads Lorrie Moore

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Powerlessness of Nurses in a Crisis Situation

I actually, I was siding with the nurse in that scene because I thought the nurse was being really lovely and sort of stroking his forehead with her latex finger. There's a weird helplessness that you can have closing the door or turning off the iPad and leaving somebody in a hospital situation with anyone. And then she manages, even though he was in the military and fought in the Philippines, he wants to stay alive to vote for Biden. Elderly people have a lot of reasons to stay alive and politics is definitely one of them for some people.

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