FORT KENT, Maine — A nurse who says she defied quarantines on behalf of all health care workers who are returning from battling Ebola in West Africa is free and clear to begin the next chapter of her life.

The 21-day incubation period is now behind her, and Kaci Hickox and her boyfriend are moving from Fort Kent on the Canadian border to southern Maine.

Hickox says that for now, they intend to spend time in Freeport, Maine, while sorting out their next move.

They decided to move when Ted Wilbur withdrew from the University of Maine at Fort Kent. Hickox and Wilbur have been critical of university officials, accusing them of forcing him to stay away from campus where he was a senior nursing student.

From all appearances, Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro was dead.Her heart stopped beating for 45 minutes, and the doctors performing her cesarean section summoned her family to say goodbye.What happened next still seems scarcely possible: The blip of her heart beat began to show on a monitor.Graupera-Cassimiro was alive — and by all appearances, she survived the Sept. 23 experience without lasting damage.“She went for almost an hour without a pulse and the resuscitation lasted almost three hours,” said Dr. Jordan Kanurr who led the resuscitation effort. Her baby girl was born healthy.