"I had another stroke last month and it's pretty bad. Those snippy little doctors -- I swear they aren't even half my age! They came into my room last week and told me that I wasn't going to get any better and I had to go to a nursing home. How could they! And, after only three weeks of trying in physical therapy, they wrote me off like that.

And they keep calling me Sarah -- not Mrs. Thomas, Sarah -- like they're all grown up or my friends. In fact, everyone around here calls me Sarah without even asking. I don't know these people and they don't know me! They don't have any right to call me Sarah!"

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