#654 Counting Months- David Leavitt
Mrs. Harrington is in a doctor’s office waiting room, lost in her thoughts until she sees today is December 17th. Why should she remember that date?
“Then, through some untraceable process, that date—December 17th—infected her with all the horror of memory and death. For today was the day she was supposed to be dead by.”
She was suffering from cancer. It was terminal, but luckily she had survived quite well past the initial date she expected to live. She goes home after her appointment to her children. She worries about them, about what they will do when she dies. But she is proud of them and happy for the time she has left with her family.
Notable Passage: “You had to lie to live through death, or else you die through what’s left of your life.”
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