Spaghetti with Chicken Sauce Recipe

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Five years ago Jane Stern was a walking encyclopedia of panic attacks, depression, and hypochondria. Her marriage of more than thirty years was suffering, and she was virtually immobilized by fear and anxiety. As the daughter of parents who both died before she was thirty, Stern was terrified of illness and death, and despite the fact that her acclaimed career as a food and travel writer required her to spend a great deal of time on airplanes, she suffered from a persistent fear of flying and severe claustrophobia. But a strange thing happened one day on a plane that was grounded at the Minneapolis airport for six horrible, foodless, airless hours. A young man on a trip with his classmates suddenly became dizzy and pale because he hadn't eaten in many hours, and there was no food left on the plane. Without thinking about it, Jane gave him the candy bar that she had in her purse. A short time later the color had returned to his cheeks, the boy was laughing again with his friends, and Jane realized that this one small act of kindness-helping another person who was suffering-had provided her with comfort and a sense of well-being. It was shortly thereafter that this fifty-two-year-old writer decided to become an emergency medical technician, eventually coming to be known as Ambulance Girl. Stern tells her story with great humor and poignancy, creating a wonderful portrait of a middle-aged, Woody Allen-ish woman who was "deeply and neurotically terrified of sick and dead people," but who went out into the world to save other people's lives as a way of saving her own. Her story begins with the boot camp of EMT training: 140 hours at the hands of a dour ex-marine who took delight in presenting a veritable parade of amputations, hideous deformities, and gross disasters. Jane-overweight and badly out of shape-had to surmount physical challenges like carrying a 250-pound man seated in a chair down a dark flight of stairs. After class she did rounds in the emergency room of a

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Dukkah & Avocado Toast | Faring Well

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Hurry! Through the end of April you can get a FREE $20 Target Gift Card and the Hello Oils Essential Oils recipe book when you purchase a Premium Starter kit. Start your essential oils journey and Embrace Wellness!

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Blogger Styling Home Tours: Favorite Room Edition www.simplestyling...

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Oven baked potato wedges: Natasha's Kitchen

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Furniture Refurb: A Pair of Five Dollar Chairs | Hearts & Sharts | www.heartsandsharts.com

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Top 5 cake pops for Halloween! Gooey Eyes Cake Pops!

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Copycat Berger Cookies recipe at TidyMom.net A soft vanilla cookie, topped with a thick fudge like frosting has long been a cultural icon of Baltimore

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Roasted Tomatillo and Black Bean Soup | A Couple Cooks

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peach, hazelnut + shiso crisp w/ ginger ice cream (gluten + dairy free)

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Looks delic....Treat yourself to luxuriously flavorful homemade chicken Marsala. www.mycouponorganizer.com

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Bloomin' Baked Apples Recipe

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Farm table with pair of pendants

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Party Appetizer Tree

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glutenfree and vegan banana pancakes

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DIY Deodorizer.

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