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Volume 1, Issue 1, January 31, 2006
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Changing the Blueprint
by Barbara Davies

        "I must go, Mrs. Hansen," said Helen. "I'm late as it is."
        Helen watched Nurse Hansen gaze at the unmade bed, the crumpled clothes left lying where they had fallen last night. The nurse said nothing; she didn't need to. Helen sighed.
        "He had a reasonable night," she continued, searching the clutter on the dressing table for her lipstick and hastily applying it. "And I've just changed him." She nodded at the soiled diaper on the carpet beside Justin's cot.
        The other woman's gaze softened at this sign of maternal devotion. "Get along then, Mrs. Stevens. I'll sort things out here."
        "What would I do without you?" Helen grabbed her car keys and ran for the door.

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