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There’s a sigh at the other end of the phone. Silence stretches out over the three-thousand miles between us. “I’m sorry,” I say again. “I just can’t get on the plane tonight. There’s an emergency at work.”“I know emergencies. I’m a doctor,” he reminds me. A fact he never lets me forget. “And there are no emergencies in newspapers, Bea. There are only deadlines. It’s not like you go out in the field to write or photograph stories. You just sit in an office all day. You could do that anywhere. You could do that here.”“It’s different this time...
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