Autumn in the Huckleberry Mountains, west of Chewelah, WA
The moral squalor of collective punishment
Twenty-eight years ago, on an otherwise innocent spring day, I was mugged by strep pneumonia. It happened quickly, infecting both lungs and inducing a severe blood infection. I knew I was in deep trouble when the usually reliable prescription inhaler I’d b…
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