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When Magic Meets Medicine: A Reflection on the Power of Play

March 31, 2023 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine

Through poetry, a writer and community-based coach appreciates the magic at the borderland of the known and unknown.

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In creative nonfiction, Crossroads, illness narratives, Intima, patients, poetry Tags impermanence, magic, play, soccer, Uno, cards, uncertainty, immigration, poetry

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