Akilah Weber Pierson, MD
@aweberpierson
Thanksgiving takeaway: unplug & you might meet a new side of the people you love. My mom learned something on a cruise when they charged extra for Wi-Fi. Her grandsons and her spent a week creating stories together, just talking for hours. She saw sides of them she'd never seen before.
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