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In 2005, at a hospital in Vietnam, a nurse sat at the bedside of her 14-year-old patient. It was after midnight,

and the hospital was eerily quiet. The girl had been asleep for hours, but the nurse didn't

dare get up or even take her eyes off the patient. She'd been told not to trust the girl.

She had symptoms that nobody could explain, and her doctor thought she was doing something to fake her

illness. And so it was the was doing something to fake her illness.

And so it was the nurse's job to catch her in the act, or to watch her so carefully, the girl

didn't have a chance to pull whatever trick was making her seem sick. But not everyone

thought the teenager was pretending to be sick. They agreed that she was not infected by a bacteria,

a virus, or anything else from this

earth. In fact, some of the hospital staff thought her symptoms might be caused by something

otherworldly, maybe even wholly. One of the nurses said the little girl's condition was

proof of an actual miracle. The nurse who was keeping watch had worked in health care long enough to know

that science could explain away even the strangest of cases. But she was also a religious person,

and some small part of her hoped that this girl's condition was really a sign from God.

Just then, the girl began tossing and turning like she was having a bad dream.

Sweat beat it on her forehead,

the nurse stood to grab a towel and wipe it off, but then in the dark she saw something,

and the nurse's blood ran cold. She ran to call the doctor, and then she said a silent prayer,

because what she just saw was not of this world, and she couldn't tell if it was a sign from God or the devil himself.

I'm Afwa Hirsch.

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