Mary was named after the grandmother she would never meet. Amy and Patrick agreed on her name the afternoon the doctor told them their first child would be a girl. Amy would tell Mary stories about her mother: how she dropped out of college to put her husband through medical school, how she volunteered at the local clinic, and how when she got sick, the…
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