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Low life

A date with destiny – and chemotherapy

31 July 2021

9:00 AM

31 July 2021

9:00 AM

I was shown to a room divided into three cubicles, each with a reclining chair and bed table. In the first, a nurse was vacuuming fluid from a man’s lungs. He was large and physically helpless with a beautiful smile. He had no voice but croaked breathlessly over the whirring noise of the machine.

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