Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them. (Florence Nightingale)

Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.

Florence Nightingale

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