(Cold wet cotton glissando skin-dance, in circles; bracing; bracing; bracing . . .)
(THWUNK!)
“All done,” said the nurse, withdrawing, sighing, so sad the moment had come and gone so quickly. “That wasn‘t so bad, now, was it?”
The curtains parted to reveal both Jimmys reverently (and cheerfully) regarding my dry, impassive face, a face stunned into an uncrying indifference it had never worn before.
“You took that like a man,” said Jimmy Rockwell Senior. I nodded politely, hoping he was wrong.
REFERENCES
The Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge (www.nrm.org)
Doctors Without Borders (www.doctorswithoutborders.org)
Recipe for wild-cherry cough syrup (www.recipegoldmine.comhealthhealth174.html)
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