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Jan 2023
26m 14s

Bedside Manners 2: Bleed ‘em Dry

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Our language is ripe with turns of phrase that invoke the idea of blood. These idioms seem to illustrate some of our most intense human experiences – it’s the thing that we can’t live with, after all. So tell me this: what happens when the blood spills?  



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