Three Days to Never

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And with thanks to Assaf Asheri, Mike Baches, John Bierer, Jim Blaylock, Didi Chanoch, Russell Galen, Patricia Geary, Tom Gilchrist, Rani Graff, Julia Halperin, John Hertz, Jon Hodge, Varnum Honey, Pat Hough, Barry Levin, Brian and Cathy McCaleb, Karen Meisner, Denny Meyer, Eric Nylund, Aya Shacham, Dave Sandoval, Bill Schafer, Sunila Sen Gupta, David Silberstein, Kristine Sobrero, Ed Thomas, Vered Tochterman, Guy Wiener, Hagit Wiener, Naomi Wiener, Par Winzell, and Mike Yanovich.

Sitting on a bank,

Weeping again the King my father’s wrack,

This music crept by me upon the waters.

—WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, THE TEMPEST

The ambulance came bobbing out of the Mercy Medical Center parking lot and swung south on Pine Street, its blue and red lights just winking dots in the bright noon sunshine and the siren echoing away into the cloudless blue vault of the sky. At East Lake Street the ambulance turned left, avoiding most of the traffic farther south, where reports of a miraculous angel appearing on somebody’s TV set had attracted hundreds of the spiritual pilgrims who had come to town for this weekend.

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