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... and it was just enough that none of the Friends of
Walker Evans ever reached that degree of hunger necessary to overcome the taboo.
So it never happened."
"Then why do I remember it?" "Do you?"
"Why-" "You remember finding jettisoned field rations under the body. And
how good you felt!"
"Uncle, this is crazy."
"That's world-changing. For a time, you have a memory. Then a faded memory
of a memory. Then nothing. It never happened, Dickie. You went through one hell
of an ordeal and lost a leg. But you did not eat your commanding officer."
Uncle went on, "Jubal, what do we have left that's important? Dickie, you
can't expect to have all your questions answered; no man can expect that. Mmm,
oh, yes, those diseases- You had two of them; the rest was hype. You were cured
in about three days; then they kept you in a controlled-memory field and put a
new leg on you... and did something else. Haven't you felt better lately? Brisk?
More energetic?"
"Well... yes. But it dates from the day I married Hazel, not from
Boondock."
"Both, probably. During the month they had you available Dr. Ishtar gave
you a booster. I learned that they shifted you from the rejuvenation clinic to
the hospital just the day before they let you wake up. Oh, they really swindled
you, boy; they gave you a new leg and made you thirty years younger. I think you
ought to sue them
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