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I Made it, Despite Life’s Ups and Downs

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Seeing action before second grade One day I was at my friend’s house jumping on a trampoline in the backyard, which faced a busy, four-way traffic stop. I worked in urgent care for 21 years and held other jobs at the same time in family practice, specialty services, long-term care, hospitals, and home health.

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Never Let Your Circumstances Determine Your Destiny

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Tanya Taylor-Edwards, RN My mother was a single mom, so my grandmother raised me most of the time while my mother pursued a business degree and then later when she went to work. I started my career in the non-profit sector, then education, and back to non-profits, but I was never fulfilled until I got the calling to become a nurse.