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Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly, they say they always believed it.

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Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.

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Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail. . . . the snail kept my spirit from evaporating.

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Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties. . . Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all.

Away, Health, Leaving, Memories, Purpose, Time

We are all hostages of time. We each have the same number of minutes and hours to live within a day, yet to me it didn't feel equally doled out. My illness brought me such an abundance of time that time was nearly all I had. My friends had so little time that I often wished I could give them what time I could not use. It was perplexing how in losing health I had gained something so coveted but to so little purpose.

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