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Speaking slowly,
swiftly, she says.

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And this is the answer.

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Pay attention, my dear.

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Not long from now,
not far from here,

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like many of your
elderly friends,

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aching with their
struggles, you will

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embark on the
medical mystery tour

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through a peninsula of loss.

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When you enter at length
the cave of quiet time,

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among the rocks, the mossy
walls, the families of bats,

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so much depends upon chance
in the form of the nurse

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currently on call.

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Hopefully, one of
my granddaughters,

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who will take your
trembling hand

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and lead you through
its polished marble

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labyrinths by the rhythms
of your body's decline.

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The drum taps, pacing the
flute, down to the river

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that flows through blackness.

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Bangles agleam on her wrist.

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Get in the boat, she will say,
reaching out a hand to help.

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