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I got my Bachelor’s degree in nursing and worked nine years – even taught nursing in a college – before I stopped and said to myself, ‘This is not who I am. I am not really a nurse inside. I’m a writer.’

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Sue Monk Kidd

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I was struck after 9/11 by what seemed the assumption that everyone bereaved by that event was suffering the same thing. I wanted to explore how individual grief is, how complicated, how colored by the complexity of the mourner’s relationship with the person who’s died.

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As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.

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June 5, 2024

As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.

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June 5, 2024

I was struck after 9/11 by what seemed the assumption that everyone bereaved by that event was suffering the same thing. I wanted to explore how individual grief is, how complicated, how colored by the complexity of the mourner’s relationship with the person who’s died.

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I got my Bachelor’s degree in nursing and worked nine years – even taught nursing in a college – before I stopped and said to myself, ‘This is not who I am. I am not really a nurse inside. I’m a writer.’

Sue Monk Kidd