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Itinerant Guest And when esophageal cancer enters their house and makes itself at home, and then there are three of them at the table, watching TV, and in the queen-size bed, and the excitement that always comes with trouble, with disaster, turns into silence and despair, and they would rid themselves of it, ask it to go, but no, one of them goes instead, taking the cancer with him, and then the other is alone, and the house is empty now, she thinks she would take the disease back, would invite almost anything in, to take up a permanent residence, if only it came back laden with all its bags and trappings, if only it came unpacking, planning a long, long stay. 15 ...

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