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Follow the life and times of Samira Safadi, a beautiful, Lebanese-born and Ontario-bred lawyer operating in the treacherous world of Toronto legal politics. Rising quickly at the firm where she works due to her seductive ruthlessness, Samira is clearly on her way to the top. Until a car accident derails her career and forces her to reevaluate her life. Emmanuel Magloire, the handsome young Haitian paramedic who saved her life is interested in her, and she feels drawn to him, but will Samira, a suddenly vulnerable self-styled super woman actually let him in ?
'Oh that I had wings I would fly like a dove and be at rest I would fly out of this asylum ....' So wrote Ralph M., a patient at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane from 1889 until his death in 1911. Winston O., another inmate at the Toronto asylum, actually sought to build wings like Ralph so longed for. After crafting violins that he played and building from scratch an automobile he was allowed to drive on the hospital grounds, Winston was reported to be working on the construction of an 'aeroplane'. In Remembrance of Patients Past, historian Geoffrey Reaume chronicles seventy years of daily life at the institution known as 999, the Toronto Hospital for the Insane at 999 Queen Street West....