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TIL Nurse Sandra Clarke was making her rounds when a frail patient made a simple request, "will you stay with me." When she returned from her rounds she discovered he died. Sandra became the founder of "No One Dies Alone," a volunteer program that provides dying patients someone to be with them.

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Oo0G4 TIL that during China's one child policy, most girls were simply not reported to officials, rather than killed/aborted. As many as 25 million unreported females may exist.
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