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Show CHRYSALIS pAGE 2 M not the outcome of hemophilia, and that while it is an inherited condition, it can also occur spontaneously. The cause and the cure are still unknown. I've discovered how the "Mad Monk" Rasputin, using mind-over-matter, or perhaps hypnotism, controlled the hemophiliac bleeding of the young Russian Tsarovich Alexis, and its significance in the fall of the Russian monarchy. Most people know the story of Rasputin and Alexis. But who knows the story of Nate Haim? A fierce wind comes up in the night with a roar that rattles the windows and doors. I can't sleep. I am too tense. I turn on the TV to the late show, which is The Caine Mutiny, with Humphrey Bogart and Van Johnson, but I can't concentrate on the story for thinking about Nate. I have seen the movie anyway. I I curl up in the chair and listen while the wind blows waves of anxiety over me. When I was a child, I would curl up in bed under three blankets, covering my ears against the howling wind outside. We could always tell, by wind-clouds piling up along the tops of the Sierra-Nevadas, when there would be a big blow. The wind always came from the west, blowing sand into waves of dunes in the front yard, settling a fine, thick silt on the window sills and in the corners. Sand blasted the paint off |