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I.

a.

He is thin and he is pale and he looks like he is not eating and he looks like he is not in the sun too often.

b.

It is spring and the trees are green and there are little flowers on the ground and the flowers are red and blue and some of them are orange.

c.

He coughs and sits inside and it is dark inside.

d.

He is going to die because he is sick and his medicine does not make him well, Tracy says. It is early and there is light in the room from the one window. The sun in the desert is yellow and soon the room is yellow and soon the room is warm. It will be too warm in here for him, Margaret says.

e.

He likes to sit in the dark room, Tracy says.

f.

Margaret makes quiet noises with her mouth when she is nervous.

II.

a.

He is screaming in the morning and the nurse is sticking needles into his arms and his arms are bleeding and there is blood on the floor and there is blood on the bed and the nurse has a white shirt on and the nurse has white pants on.

b.

He fell on the floor, Tracy says.

c.

Margaret has sex with him in a dark room that is in the basement of a house that is on Cleary St. Margaret wears a blue and white mask and in the early morning her body is tan and smooth.

d.

He is awake and he is screaming.

e.

The sheets are red and he has been bleeding again and his body is hairless and he is white and parts of him are blue.

f.

The nurse has white gloves and sometimes she is crying.

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