THE BLOOD--Interesting story

The day is over, you are driving home. You tune in your radio. You hear a little blurb about a little village in India where some villagers have died suddenly, strangely, of a flu that has never been seen before. It's not influenza, but three or four fellows are dead, and it's kind of interesting, and they're sending some doctors over there to investigate it. You don't think much about it, but on...

I walked into his room, and said “How are you,” and he said, “I love you too.” From then on, I had that word to lose. from: Beyond Harm, Sharon Olds