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And now we have Carla Dewerson on to share a story with us,

and she is a student of one of our regular contributors,

author Leslie Layland Fields.

Carla is sharing with us the story of her daughter Wiley.

Here is Carla.

How do I begin a story that seems to have begun long before I was born?

How can I go back far enough to show how all the tributaries ran along to cause this river that is my life?

There is not a way I can see now, except to begin somewhere, and trust that those small

streams will reveal themselves even in the flow of mightier water.

Choroidplexus cysts.

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