Cycles of Persecution
An encounter during a routine bloodletting forced me to confront a suddenly darker world
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10 min readApr 19, 2024
I was in a cheerful mood going in for my phlebotomy that afternoon, that is until the nurse started with her prying questions.
It was my first time in this clinic, and it was just the two of us in a windowless room at back of the hospital’s infusion…