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For Michele Refusing to be a prisoner of your prognosis You fought to health step by step Denying the plans for your disability You ably strove to heal your brain The pain of doubt about recovery All shared with you the fear of loss You drove the healing process forward Until you showed us you were whole. Carlos Pato Psychiatry and The Behavioral Sciences, University of Southern California

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