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The Nurse Who Became the Light I Didn’t Know I Needed

I came closer to death the night my son was born than I ever had at any other moment in my life.

The delivery was brutal. The recovery, even worse. For ten long days, I lay in a hospital bed—sore, terrified, and completely alone. My family lived hours away, my husband was stuck overseas for work, and I felt abandoned in a way that cut far deeper than the physical pain.

But every night, when the halls grew quiet and the fluorescent lights dimmed, a gentle knock would sound on my door.

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