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It's day one for newly hired hospice nurse, Amelia Bowden, 26 years old. Anxious and eager to prove herself as competent and caring, she is assigned to Carol Schultz, a sweet elderly woman on palliative care in need of assistance. Yet when Amelia arrives at Carol's home, she can see that Carol is experiencing neglect-and possibly worse-at the hands of Carol's husband, Earl. During her nursing visits, Carol invites Amelia to read her personal diaries out loud and soon, Amelia realizes that Carol's life mirrors her own. Shockingly, Amelia's visits begin to cross professional boundaries as the young nurse pursues answers from Carol regarding addiction, marriage, and even love. As Carol becomes weaker and her end draws near, the lines between friendship, professionalism, and end-of-life care blur as heartbreaking questions beg how best to care for those whose care may be mostly out of our hands?

"I wish I never had you." "You talk in riddles." "Can't you talk intelligent?" My mother said these words to me more than times than I can count. I thought it was normal.I learned it was not.This is my story. I didn't speak until I was five. At age six, I was put in special education and called a 'retard' by my own brothers. I was autistic, but no one knew it. Except God knew. At six years old, He told me He was watching over me. I didn't even know who God was, except by the spitting remarks my mother made about religion at the dinner table. At seven I was abused by my friend's 19-year-old cousin. At ten my mother punched me in the face with her closed fist, blaming me for something I didn't do. Realizing she would never love me, I no longer wanted to live. I handed my brother a knife and demanded that he use it on me. He stared at me and laughed. It was at that moment I realized I had no choice but to survive and no one was going to help me. I had to choose my own path. I had to learn to love myself. I had to turn the negatives in my life into positives. Autistic, dyslexic, and carrying a big secret, I made my way in the world with a single dream.