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Han will be no use to Naomi if things go wrong. She will be no use to Thanh and Harper. But then, what use would Thanh and Harper be?
It’s important to Fleur?
Sheila, Robert?
David’s parents? Question
Haha
Nobody knowns - a magic pool has to remain mysterious.
People are making all sorts of wishes.
Thanh
It seems dangerous to Thanh to make demands of God, of the universe, of a muddy hole.
How can he anticipate the thing that he ought to wish for?
Down goes Thanh’s bit of shell with all the other pebbles and bits, the other wishes.
Haha
Haha
Good decision - haha
Thanh
Bad Claw Island Ice Tea,
Haha
the lesson
Premature baby girls have better outcomes than premature baby boys. Caucasian boys fare worst of all.
Nurses have a name for this: Wimpy White Boys.
Haha
someone whose name is William.
There is a price for all of these interventions. There is a cost. Cerebral palsy is a risk. Brain bleeds. Scarring of the lungs. Loss of vision. Necrotizing enterocolitis.
The business of staying alive is hard work.
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Parents may visit the NICU at any hour, day or night. Some parents find it hard to visit. Their presence is not essential.
A baby born at twenty-four weeks is expensive!
There is movement in the room, a kind of black liquid rushing. Beetles are pouring—a cataract—out of the Bad Claw onto the table and down the wall, across the floor, and toward the bed and the window. Something urgent in their progress, some necessary, timely task that they are engaged in.
The lively, massed shape of them is the shadow of an unseen thing, moving through the room. Scurrying night.
Sees, in the violet light, a spider moving across...
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She reaches in, scoops the spider into a cup.
Yay!
God has an inordinate fondness for stars and also for beetles.
The small and the very far away.
David.
What kind of person is he? Not a good one, but he is loved by Fleur
Even caterers get married. There’s no law against it.
Haha
a hangover of supernatural proportions.
Haha
Han,
Naomi.
Thanh
Was this it, the thing that he had wished for, even as he had tried to wish for nothing at all? Was it this moment? Or was it this? Or this. Brief joys.
There is a day
One day
Question
I will be a ghost who washes her hands and waits.
Thanh and Harper stay married. The boy is loved.
the lesson.
Conflicted teen affections and unhappinesses.
Ainslie
Immy
Haha
