Today, She Is

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Molly Miltenberger Murray. Today, She Is

Today, She Is

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I

PART II

PART III

PART IV

PART V

PART VI

PART VII

EPILOGUE

Bibliography

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Molly Miltenberger Murray

There is plenty to say to everyone, but one thing really: look both ways.

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My voice is shallowest of all, a ghost that tells me I can speak until I open my mouth and gape at air that is empty and dry as a desert. Words became real only because it hurts to talk and I push them out of an aching throat as if from a cheese grater. The little birds told me, humankind cannot bear very much reality.5

Old people who can barely hobble are here in the rehab center; young people are in the rehab center in baseball caps. Some people don’t talk and some people can’t think. A good amount of them won’t ever rehabilitate enough to go home; some of them are rehabilitated enough to begin work pushing carts at Albertson’s Groceries.

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