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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

Giving Up Part of Herself

Another from Justin George's series, Deciding: RIVERVIEW – She came home from work and asked her husband about his day, holding back the question pressing on her mind.
Nicki Bradley, 38, fixed dinner and bathed her twins. When her husband played solitaire on the computer, Nicki ran a bubble bath and bared her soul to God.
It had started a day earlier in a phone call with her best friend, Denise Robinson, whose husband, Alex, was on dialysis. By the end of the conversation, Nicki had volunteered, "Well, maybe I can give Alex a kidney."

Nicki Bradley, 38, fixed dinner and bathed her twins. When her husband played solitaire on the computer, Nicki ran a bubble bath and bared her soul to God.

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