When I hit the street, I couldn’t figure out at first which direction to walk in, and didn’t see any phone booths to call a taxi. So I just kept walking. My breath was coming hard and fast, my heart was pounding so hard I was certain passersby could see it. I walked another nearly two miles to get back to my dorm. Once there, I called Jean and Richard and told them what had happened. Immediately, they insisted that I needed to follow the doctor’s recommendation. “No!” I said, and hung up, defiant and scared and completely at a loss for what to do next. That night was terrible. I lay awake in a
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