228. It was obvious that he was very proud of this line of
poetry of his, and repeated it to me several times with urgency, examining my
face to see if I understood how great it was.
229. Then he said, “When my Language Arts teacher read this
line she said that I would have a brilliant career as a poet if I chose to go
in that direction.”
230. Well, I chose to be a surgeon, and I am a great surgeon
as everybody knows, but I could have been a great poet if I had chosen that
path.
231. I was quick to agree with him in order to put an end to
what I felt was an embarrassing conversation, but that was far from the end of
it.
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