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She is so busy scrubbing coffee cups and baby butts that she forgets that most precious piece of metal, her wedding ring.

“Now we’re lucky if we get a cup of water and a stale bag of peanuts.”

Set out a few small luxuries—cream or oat milk, maple syrup, cinnamon—and let people build their perfect cup.A simple, old-fashioned coffee-and-dessert bar feels charming, cozy and complete.

Oliver is used to hospitals, but is fretful, and wriggles as the research nurse slowly injects the treatment, about a cup full, into a catheter in his chest.

Pour another cup of coffee, ask one more question, hear one more story, if only to understand each other a little better before we return to our own lives.