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(As noted in the private session for May 22, I brought Jane home from her overnight stay at St. Joseph’s hospital the day before. Of course we had no idea of what all those tests would cost, and weren’t billed when she was discharged, since test results weren’t in. A few nights later, evidently after I’d been wondering how much the bill would be I had a dream in color, in which I was informed of the amount of the bill —$800-odd dollars. I saw the figure on a sheet of bluish paper that unfolded like a letter. I was shocked—so much so that I woke up after the brief little dream, for my best guess had been that the bill would be between $400 and $500. I told myself that the figure I’d been given in the dream was much too high.
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(“Well,” Jane said at 9:01, “I might get something real brief—which is all right as long as I can build up to something....” She spoke as, following Seth’s suggestions, we sat at the round card table in the living room, waiting to see what might develop. Earlier she’d sat at her desk in the writing room, watching the rain as dusk, then night, fell. [The greenery this spring is unbelievably lush.] Then I wheeled her back in the house.
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Now: we will call this a very brief Seth visit—for which there is no charge (with much humor, referring no doubt to the bill from St. Joseph’s).
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