Letter to Sister Benedicta (2009)
“Dr Woods was called away and shook my hand gently.
“Drink the tea, Mrs Constad,” said Matron.
I sipped and said: “I’d like to know . . . when you said so much about rehabilitation. I’d like to know . . .”
“Massive secondary stroke,” she announced. She announced this as if it was a parade order. I thought, the whole world is crawling with soldiers shouting orders and I have never been free of them, only with Leon when he was twenty and poor and we ran down Primrose Hill with Max Reiter, only the...n was I free of them.
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“Drink the tea, Mrs Constad,” said Matron.
I sipped and said: “I’d like to know . . . when you said so much about rehabilitation. I’d like to know . . .”
“Massive secondary stroke,” she announced. She announced this as if it was a parade order. I thought, the whole world is crawling with soldiers shouting orders and I have never been free of them, only with Leon when he was twenty and poor and we ran down Primrose Hill with Max Reiter, only the...n was I free of them.
“Unexpected,”MoreLess
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