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...days and losing 15 pounds, I felt well enough to climb on board an Air Polynesie prop plane to return to Papeete. There were a few days left before our return flight, and I wanted to spend that time eating well, relaxing and resting up from my ordeal...
...Roths, of course. This is a book about what it means to keep swinging. During his father's ordeal, the son undergoes quintuple bypass surgery. His biggest fear is that he will still be invalided when his father dies. But he holds on, and the recovered author is at Herman's bedside, watching as "he fought for every breath with an awesome eruption, a final display, of his lifelong obstinate tenacity...
...cruel ordeal of Nancy Cruzan is finally drawing to an end. Last week probate judge Charles Teel Jr. ruled that the Missouri Rehabilitation Center could disconnect the feeding tube that has kept the woman alive since 1983, when a car crash left her in an irreversible coma. Since state officials have promised to abide by the ruling, the decision ends a legal battle that took the woman's parents all the way to the Supreme Court in their quest to "allow Nancy the dignity of death...
What actually irritates the applicants are not the picky questions, but the ordeal of travelling around the country for interviews...
When I was a girl of ten, I was told to be brave and not to cry, that I'd be a big girl after the ordeal. But when I saw the half-blind old woman with her razor, I bolted. My mother and aunts held me down and spread open my legs. Suddenly, I felt excruciating pain. She sliced off my clitoris and now it lay in her gnarled hands. She then sliced my inner lips until there was nothing left. There was blood everywhere, but by now I felt no more pain, not even when she stuck...