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Health Care & Hospital Law

May 8, 2010

Early Onset

Joseph Cooper of Quinnipaic University presents a short story themed to honor the memory of mothers.

Joseph H. Cooper

Joseph was editorial counsel at The New Yorker from 1976 to 1996, and now resides in Culver City. He is compiling his prison-related articles for publication as "Corrections - Essays from Inside: The In-Prison Education of Inmate-Students and Their Language-Arts Professor."


By Joseph H. Cooper

This short story, themed to honor the memory of mothers, can be read as an advocacy essay. Though the characters are created, the sentiments and sorrows are real.


Gently, deftly, expertly, she will toggle a slide between the stage clips of the microscope. It's the microscope that the lab director uses. But it's Sunday, so she has the slides, the microscope, and the lab to herself.


She p...

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