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Now, you know way
too much about me.

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I like to close
with one piece that

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is dedicated to books because
this is the Tucson book

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festival.

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It may not sound like
it's about books,

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but you'll see in the end.

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This is called "The Way
to Leave Your Illness."

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If you have an illness that
won't go away, take a journey.

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When you get there, leave it.

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Place it on a rock.

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Throw it into moving
water, bury it.

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Throw it into the wind.

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Let it go.

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Leave it there for others.

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She had been sick for many days.

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In her frustration,
she remembered

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what her grandmother used
to say, "Take it far away

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and leave it there."

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She walked to the other end of
campus, towards the library.

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In her mind, she left a
discomfort, ache, pain there.

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She walked back.

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Comforted knowing, she didn't
bring it back with her.

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Her illness is now
hidden in the stacks.

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Perhaps, it is temporarily
in periodicals, or archived,

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in special collections,
or perhaps in fiction.

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No longer real.

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Thank you very much.