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     CAREER CHOICES

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     �@    When I was a young woman I wanted more 
     than anything else to be a nurse. I imagined myself 
     traveling the world, giving succor wherever there was 
     pain and suffering. Sickly babies would smile and 
     grow fat in my arms, old dying Biafrans would rise 
     from their foul straw pallets and walk after my minis-
     trations, and victims of railway accidents, swathed in 
     bandages and wired up in traction, would find a 
     strange comfort in their delirium at the sound of my 
10   feet coming down the hall in their great white shoes. 
     When I went to college, I signed up for the four-
     year nursing program. I breezed right through the 
     first two years of pure science courses. Photosynthesis 
     seemed as natural as breathing, and meiosis and mi-
     tosis were like two little kid brothers of mine whose 
     antics I'd been watching since childhood. It was a 
     thorough and satisfying beginning to my life's work.