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A Lesson in Pediatric Nursing

It might be natural to consider the death of a young person as particularly tragic-- the loss of so much life to come. 

But University of Virginia nursing student May Peng learned from one of her pediatric patients that there are things to remember and celebrate, even when death comes early.

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