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"No… Not that…" She protested when she heard hi the top off the alunored her and continued pouring it into a srin and then opened the fridge again while re another can He then popped the top and poured another glass Setting the two glasses on a serving tray nearby, he then walked back over to his wife's bedside and sat down

"What're you doing?" Louise offered a weak and timid smile Her smile was not as broad as it used to be She didn't feel beautiful so she didn't s silky hair was now thinning and nil If it the wig that Jacob had bought her didn't irritate her skin, she would never take it off; but it did Therefore she kept her balding head covered with a silk scarf She couldn't stand to see her ie in a mirror It depressed her to see her face hollowed out and like a skeleton frame of her former beauty Her eyes were dark and sunken, while her skin was like the Mojave desert- dry with very little life in it

"Here," Jacob said passing her some pills froht hand as he held her drink in his left

"Do I really have to?" She asked tilting her head slightly up to look at him

"If not for yourself; think of the kids andthe pills into her hands She could hear hi on his own emotions; and that made her heart cry "Besides I have to take you for your doctor's appoint to coax her to take the pills without further protest She s at them as they lay in her hand

"Red ones, blue ones, little yellow ones and white ones… Hmm there's even a pink one and a black one too…" She noted observing the different colors of the pill

"I propose a toast…" He said catching her attention as she threw all of the pills in herlive love, happiness and fa it with hers Together they s the pasty and tasteless watery white liquid frolasses

It wasn't long before Louise lay sleeping in his arm He wasn't surprised that she was already asleep Between the three days of che, she was in the toilet fighting a bout with of diarrhea or she would be bent over the toilet puking her guts out