Consider the Lilies-1

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Consider the LiliesI HAVE three aunts by marriage named Lily. My sisters and I called them Lily A, Lily B and Lily C, to distinguish them from one another. Coincidentally, they were all doctors but I didn’t realize this until much later. Only Lily A actually practiced and she looked more like a movie star than a doctor with her perfectly coiffed hair and impeccable makeup. She and Lily B were married to doctors too. Such couplings were quite common, and had a rightness to them. After all, they ran the gauntlet together through Pre-Med, internship, clerkship and all the travails of Medical training. It seemed inevitable that they would end up together too. Lily A Lily A was from our father’s side of the family. Her father and my paternal grandfather were first cousins. Generally, we had l

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