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Answering the Phone
- Literature and Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 3, 1984
- p. 129
- 10.1353/lm.2011.0046
- Article
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129 Answering the Phone John Stone Used to you'd say Hello and think nothing of it or someone else might do it for you He's out may I take a message and you'd return the call When Bobby died and the man across the street and Bill and Mr. G. all that changed and you think now before you answer the phone you take a deep breath and think something of it and you know no one else can ever answer for you again so now you pick up the receiver and say not hello but now what now what ...