But Fatima was right, too. It’s possible to be both things, to both have a life and use one’s gifts, to be a person of faith and a person of science. If there is anything I’ve learned over this last, complicated year of love and of loss, it is this:
There are many ways to be a healer.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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DONNA FREITAS is the author of the Unplugged series as well as other young adult and middle grade novels, including The Possibilities of Sainthood, The Survival Kit, and Gold Medal Summer. Donna is also a professor at Fairleigh Dickinson’s MFA program and at Hofstra’s Honors College. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can visit her online at www.donnafreitas.com.
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THE HEALER. Copyright © 2018 by Donna Freitas. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Digital Edition OCTOBER 2018 ISBN: 978-0-06-266213-2
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-266211-8
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