Essay Archive - The Safety of Blood
The Safety of Blood
A five-year old girl is riding down the street, on her way to her best
friend's house. She doesn't have a care in the world and is quietly humming to
herself. Suddenly a car whips around the corner and swerves to avoid the child,
but he looses control and squarely hits the girl, causing the her to fall and
get trapped between the car and her battered bicycle. A main artery in her leg
has been severed and blood fills the gutter of the street. As she gets rushed
to the hospital in the ambulance, a pint of blood is given to her to attem....
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