For instance, the car that almost hit us last month might not have managed to stop in time, and I’d be in a hospital with casts on all four limbs, IVs, cannulas up my nose, looking very thin and pale but sort of ethereally lovely, and I’d have to learn to walk all over again using computers and enormous force of character, and I’d be a really good sport about it all and get to be on “60 Minutes.” I used to have a lot of these fantasies, of being badly hurt but being loved back to health and being incredibly brave and spiritual about the whole thing, like Beth in Little Women. I think these
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