Gray's Donation
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Gray's Donation mentions A Life Everlasting by Sarah Gray and The Lacemaker Fairy Tale with timestamps, quotes, and episode context.
About a year after we originally aired this episode, Sarah Gray published a book with HarperOne called A Life Everlasting.
Sarah also published a beautiful short story about shame called The Lacemaker Fairy Tale.
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“About a year after we originally aired this episode, Sarah Gray published a book with HarperOne called A Life Everlasting. the extraordinary story of one boy's gift to medical science.”
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