A Quote by Theodore Melfi
After a tumultuous 20-year marriage, my father up and left one day, leaving my mother to raise three boys without the means to do so. And yet somehow she did. At the age of 50, she enrolled in nursing school and became a nurse and worked countless overtime hours and weekend shifts just to give us a fighting chance.
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and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.
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