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...street, his shoulder crippled by a bullet, and was nearly trampled by a gang of passing youths. His wife tried for three hours to get him to a hospital. A five-year-old boy ran into his parents' home crying that he had a terrible pain in his stomach. His mother discovered a gaping bullet wound there. A 17-month-old girl was killed by a shot in the head as she slept outside her family's shanty. As much as an hour passed before her parents discovered what had happened...
...leaned back in my chaise lounge and let the sun's warmth fill all my pores. I had to answer quickly because I could feel a burn creeping onto my stomach and I needed to flip over. Thinking quickly I responded "Sorry, this story is far too hot for me to handle...
...came to see me and complained about his appetite. His stomach actually was swollen and covered with blue lines. My appetite has disappeared, he said. Then take the matter to the police, I advised boldly. What about the digestion tract, he asked. Some rivets in the gut really had worked loose, there were bolts rattling around, and some welded seams had come apart. When all's said and done I'm no engineer and we're not living in some science fiction novel, but in ordinary Soviet reality, I announced to him and washed my hands...
...eleven the news was devastating. "It was just the last straw," says Phyllis Whitenight. Both she and her husband Leonard, a printer, had chromosome abnormalities. In 1975 she lost a breast to cancer. Their son, Kevin, 10, has had unexplained stomach problems. Their daughter, Debbie, 26, was plagued as a child by rashes on her legs and throat infections; three years ago she miscarried. Said Whitenight: "We've lived in fear for a long time. Now we'll wonder what we've passed on to the children...
Ignatius' ruling passion is his utter contempt for the modern age; its manifestations make his pyloric valve close, trapping gas in his cavernous stomach. His heart belongs to the early Middle Ages...