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Gap Year, week twenty something

July 14, 2024

Technically, still week 28, by a day.  The 12-month gap, to bring any newcomers up to speed, spans from January 2024, when I was employed as a clinical geneticist, to January 2025 when I hope to be a writer, thought not yet daring to be employed. This blog is my opinionated memoir of the descent … More Gap Year, week twenty something

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“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”

The Sign of the Four, ch. 6 (1890)
Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four (Doubleday p. 111)

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