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Show 339 to be a good patient. I do not care anymore if I live or die but I will no longer stay in this place. If I am culpable it is only because I have allowed myself to remain in this place and all places like this and to be subject to this kind of freatment. I will leave this place. I will never return. I do not deserve to be treated like this. No one does. I am taking Hy's hand in mine, turning my face from their onslaught, turning my mind to the cool shade ofthe tree below my window and I am there, with my husband by my side, admiring the newest blossoms, and the words that continue to be hurled at us are falling from us like puny spears against the mighty dragon of our love. Some of their sharpest barbs, however, have indeed already pierced my vulnerable heart and I sense that they will have to be gently removed, but by love and not by hate. And I am sure there will be scars. But I am leaving this place. I will find a way. |