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(What a comedy of errors, I told Jane. First the girls are wrong about the cause of the slight swelling, then Fred gives her a lousy suggestion about arthritis! I told Jane I hoped the whole episode served as a warning as to what hospitals were really like, and the well-meaning but misguided people who worked in them. Jane answered my question about whether Fred had any idea he was giving out rotten suggestions about arthritis by saying that it never occurred to him—or any other doctor.
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(Now I mentioned the idea I’d had last night, and made a note of. It was simply that I’d bring in one of the Seth books and start reading it to her a page at a time. She liked the idea. I told her to name the book, or more than one, if she wanted. I added that as soon as she could handle pages, I could take the book apart so that she could hold each page up while she read it when she was alone. I could leave a stack of them on her bed. This would give her great freedom to read by herself at any time of the day or night. It would be very liberating, I said, truly. She agreed. I thought that the way she was improving, she’d be able to work up to such a step. Also, I could take apart any book for that matter.
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