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131 Inventory: The Objects in This Hospital Room —Seattle, Early 1908 A wooden table with clawed feet. A metal bed with starched yellowed covers. An empty cobweb in the upper left corner of the window. The private nurse for fifteen dollars a week. One empty bottle of beer. A sister’s gloves, folded on the nape of the rocker. Glass vials and their calcified clinks. A puddle of gray sunlight on a tiled floor. Scuffs from visitors’ shoes on the left side of the bed. A photo of Dandy. The one son able to afford passage. A hand-carried packet of letters from First Street in Fairbanks. A dirty glass, half inch of buttermilk in the bottom. The glass of water, empty, a pitcher waiting beside it for thirst. ...

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