I was misdiagnosed with brain damage at birth and put up for adoption. My mother climbed over the walls of the facility and stole me out. “Your only child will be stupid.” They said when they caught her. She signed the papers. My mother gave me life twice. And I give her everything I am.

97 years ago, my great-grandmother (Tai Nai Nai) walked by a new mother’s open window on a cold winter morning and saw that she was trying to freeze her baby to death. What my Tai Nai Nai did next would change the fate of two families. Today, almost a century later, no one remembers Tai Nai Nai’s name. But everyone talks about her kindness. And her 97-year-old son (my great-uncle) is living proof. She was Benevolence. And we are all her legacy.

10 years ago, serendipitously, I, a girl from Beijing, came to live in a small town in New Hampshire. My landlords are an old couple, who didn’t just take me into their home, but made this little place in the mountains home FOR me.

"One more thing," the patient says, right when I'm about to exit the exam room. I used to be annoyed by it. Until one day, a patient's "one more thing" was actually "the" thing she wanted to say.

If we ask people to wait for months for their appointments, then (sometimes) hours in our offices, we can hear them out for their one more thing.