“Some people live their whole lives, their kid never breaks a bone, their parents never have malignant moles, they never get . . . what do I have?” “Listeriosis,” he said, and he picked up her left hand, stroked it with his thumb. “And their parents die one of old age, the other of heartbreak, and they never lose all their hair to radiation in their thirties, never have a double mastectomy in their forties, never have a baby with violent asthma or a toddler get run over by a car or a kid who steps on a rusty nail or a teenager who takes pills one night at a party and then wastes away because
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