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Show 328 "Help Me!" I have been here for months now. I can tell that because ofthe calendar hung on the bulletin board on the wall next to my bed. I came in November, just before Thanksgiving. Incredibly, the calendar says it is March. There is my notebook on the over-the-bed table and I scuff it closer to see who has come to visit recently. I do not remember who has come and if they have not also signed their names, with also perhaps a short note, I will not know they have ever been here.T see the names of a few friends. Virginia. Emily and Max. Leaders from my church. Loyal folks, to have come all this way to see someone who will never remember their visit. I am wondering just how many times I have looked at the notebook since their visit, as if for the first time. Someone is yelling from a room close to mine. She is in pain and she is yelling that she is in pain. She is not yelling in English and though she is also not yelling in Spanish, I understand her words. It is a language close to Spanish. "Help me!" she is saying, in her own language. |