I sat at my table that evening with my wife and our little girl, hoping to restore her health with simple food and quiet care. Yet when she fell worse, my heart turned heavy, and I found myself willing to spend any sum of money to secure a nurse. The cost of keeping a child alive is not merely in coin, but in the anxiety that gnaws at the stomach…
Samuel Pepys
@pepys ·
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“The whole heaven on fire.”