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She gets the call the way no mother ever wants to get a call. Her son has been in a road accident. She does not have time to think. She does not have time to prepare what she will say or how she will feel. She simply moves — through the door, into the street, toward the hospital — with the particular velocity of a mother whose child is in danger, which is to say with the most urgent purpose a human body can hold. When she arrives, she finds him. He is not in the condition she