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As she was making her way through the fruit stands, Claire only heard her cellphone by the third ring. By the time she answered it, the voicemail had already picked it up. The display showed that it was the school board that had called.
The message left was brief and worrisome: "...Mrs. Foreman, we request that you come to the school immediately; we have already called your home number, and your husband's office informed us that he's unavailable to take our call...."
Claire immediately set down onto the sidewalk the few things she intended to buy and made her way back to the bus stop.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 01-14-2009 at 12:06 PM..
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