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Show -4b-the bar and opened a bottle of beer, but the taste was so disgusting that he could not swallow, and had to spit it out into the bar sink? He noticed a soft drink his daughter;Jiad left in the refrigerator the last time she visited, and he tried that, but it had no sooner reached his stomach than he had to hurry to the bathroom to regurgitate it into the toilet.' 1 Just as he was coming from the bathroom, the phone rang. He thought it might be his wife, but it was the wife of the neighbor who had invited him to dinner that evening? She wanted to know what time he wished to come. "I don't think I'll be able to come," he told her. He tried to speak lightly. "I'm terribly sick. I can't even keep a coke on my stomach?" The woman sympathized with him. She was terribly sorry. She would send him down a bowl of her special stew. He thanked her briefly and hung up. The simple effort of talking was painful? He tried walking out onto the patio. It was a beautiful day, very warm but not hot. Over the wall that edged the area, he could hear voices of the neighborhood children. He looked over the wall and saw the neighbor below changing a tire on his car, the children huddled about watching; The Professor called, telling the neighbor it was such a nice day? perhaps he and his children would like to come up and use the pool. No one else would be using it. |