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Bearing witness

In the face of death, chaplaincy intern Ashley Brown learns the gift of bearing witness.

Helicopter Rescue Flight over the Mountain of Campo Imperatore - Abruzzo - Italy

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Trigger warning: This story speaks about the death of a child and abuse.  

I was driving down the interstate, directly underneath the belly of the Life Flight helicopter carrying a baby close to death. A few minutes earlier, I had been eating a slice of greasy pepperoni pizza and staring out the glassy windows of a different hospital cafeteria.

Then, the pager went off and everything changed as I read the Cat-1 trauma alert. A chaplain...

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