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Monday morning. You are going to be 40 next Monday morning, a fair maiden sweetly did sing. The maden did sing, but the elbow was gone quiet, sulking under Clive´s sleeve.

This is a good enough reason to ignore it entirely, he decided, and this is how he ended up at Ichilov, dragged by his sister Dahlia, who didn’t believe in “wait and see.”

And this way, he ended up in a waiting room smelling a mix of disinfectant and someone’s leftover shawarma. A ceiling fan spun without conviction.

The doctor, Dr. Noa Lindqvist-Cohen, according to the badge, had a tricky multicultural genealogy: Swedish mother, Israeli father. She was the kind of blonde that looks accidental, like she was not trying, but it happened anyway. White coat, clipboard, entirely unbothered by the heat, extremely large breasts. She asked the normal questions in the normal order. “Any trauma to the arm? Any family history of talking elbows?

Clive said no and no, but did not mention the shul, the screaming, or the dream with the blue light, because how do you say that to a woman........

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