Word: earley
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...level-headed mom, that's just what would have happened. Many parents would have instinctively tried to pull the wooden stiletto from Nathan's chest. But Lorri Earley, a trained nurse, saw the pencil throbbing rhythmically in her son's chest and knew where it had probably lodged. She knew that pulling it out could unleash a torrent of red that would bleed the boy dry in a matter of minutes. "There was no way we'd touch it," she told TIME...
...while Lorri dialed 911, she kept one hand cupped over the pink rubber eraser to prevent the panicky Nathan from yanking it. "There was nothing you could do," recalls Mike Earley, Nathan's stepfather. "Adrenaline all the way up to your eyeballs, and all you can do is hold his hand, let him know you're there...