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The whole world w...
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"Oh," I said, hol...
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So: I was yanked ...
So: I was yanked from my slumber last Wednesday by the girlfriend calling me from the shower. She was seeing what she described as "little fireflies" in front of her eyes, a symptom we both knew to mean that we had to call our doctor, and that we had to do so post-haste. As the girlfriend normalized, she finished getting herself ready for work, what with all the gussying-up and lunch-making that entailed, and I groggily set to waking myself up with vicious head-shakes and self-administered slaps to the face in lieu of coffee. On our way to the hospital for a quick check-in before work, the girlfriend and I recalled her co-workers’ decision to present their goodbye-present just the d