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Dear Life by Rachel Clarke — WisdomDeck honest review
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Dear Life

by Rachel Clarke

A palliative care doctor on her patients and her father's death: what dying teaches about living. Tender and unsentimental.

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  1. Dying is living.
  2. Presence is the medicine.
  3. Say the things.

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