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dessert
news
healing
ulcers
congressional
DELETED SESSION
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(3:00. After a cigarette Jane started reading yesterday’s session. She did fairly well in between pauses and hesitations, and finished at 3:l6. It wasn’t her best or worst.
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(4:23. Heads and shoulders, side to side and around and around, noises and louder breathing, the left foot also. I made sure the door was shut as much as possible. Jane made a few more motions before the session. I was surprised when she suggested the session, since for some reason I’d thought she wasn’t going to have one.
(Just before the session, we saw a newscast of a congressional committee in Washington, with some well-known scientists testifying as to the probable aftereffects of nuclear war—how the instigator would also eventually destroy itself even if the attacked never fired a retaliatory strike at all. Because of temperature changes on the earth, and so forth.
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(4:38 PM. I was certainly glad that she had the session, I told Jane, for it contained excellent news. I was nearly elated, and felt again that surge of hope and expectation that I’ve come to learn is so valuable. The signs of healing on the ulcer on the outside of her right knee are very pronounced, compared to the size of the wound there when it had burst after she broke her leg. I told Jane the little session was her best yet—that if it would do any good I’d put it up on the wall. But she couldn’t read it.
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