This is Fran. She administered my booster shot. It took approximately one thousand hours because Fran has had an interesting life & we had to talk about it! 
Fran is a midwife! She learned the craft from Sister Angela, was friends with Dorothea Lange and helped start the Brooklyn Women’s Ctr. She has practiced midwifery all over the world: Darfur, Saudia Arabia, Afghanistan.
Fran got tired of sitting on the sidelines, post-retirement so she is back out here, giving the vaccine first as a volunteer and now with CVS. The tables at CVS are a bit too high so Fran brought in her ironing board and that’s her command station.
One of my favorite short stories has a woman who says that no matter how one might try to evade society and relarionships, “life won’t let you alone.” I left the house exactly once today and I met Fran. That’s how life won’t let you alone.
Fran worries she spent so much time on midwifery that her kids and husband paid a price. But, she helped her daughter with the kids and told her husband that he wasn’t exactly a homebody. Then she went back to work.
Worried that she is bragging, I taught Fran a saying: “it ain’t tricking if you got it.” She likes that one.
Fran doesn’t talk this much, she says. I’m sure we all believe Fran and that I just have one of those faces 😬😬
Fran doesn’t talk this much, she says. I’m sure we all believe Fran and that I just have one of those faces 😬😬
If you are local and need a booster, you can visit the CVS on Greensboro Street where you might be fortunate enough to meet Fran. If you do, tell her I said hi.
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