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Yes, indeed, everybody. It's Episode 86 of The Past and the Curious. And for the month of November,

I have not had a voice. I did miraculously find two days where I had a voice and was able to

record the two stories. But by and large, I've been pretty froggy. I sound a little froggy still,

but it's much, much better. My voice and the actual story parts is great. Don't worry. I mean,

not great. I'm not like James Earl Jones or anything, but you know, it's, it sounds, I sound like

myself. Okay. So whatever, I don't want to get, I don't want to belabor the point. Let's get into

the episode. We're talking Walt Whitman and we're talking Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, two people who

I'm pretty certain cross paths at some point or came very close to doing so, who were both

involved in efforts in the Civil War, but both of their stories are so much bigger and so much

broader than that. I can't wait for you to learn about them. Let's go.

When a young man named Walt Whitman heard Ralph Waldo Emerson say,

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