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Woman's Hour
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I've Been a Journalist for 25 Years, and This Is a Book in the Making
"I didn't feel like i could mine my grief at that point and, you know, make it into a meaningful or profound book," she says. "It left me essentially inarticulate. And it silenced me, actually, that grief." She was led by this absolute medical confusion, but also curiosity about an infectious disease.
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