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Huntington Hospital

Mount Rainier rises ten thousand feet from its base to the heavens Its massive cap of snow and ice flows contains as much frozen water as the twelve other Cascade volcanoes combined Each year, ten thousand people try to test their li the massive peak About half will not succeed

The clien tanks fascinated Paul How does one prepare for an adventure so coht never return? If a clied, with his limitations and boundaries forever shifted, and yet outwardly he is entirely the same

Froton Hospital for Alcoholise or a country day school Set on a vast landscape of rolling hills, the defining features of its ca that looked like a fare steeple Once you got inside, however, it looked more like what it was—a hospital There was a reception with a gray institutional tile floor, a s roo the staff fro Sara’s cancer treate relationship with hospitals—a mix of distaste and relaxed familiarity

“I’m here to see Ian Finnerty,” he told the receptionist

“Just a h a tabbed binder under F, put her finger on his name, and then walked to the back of the room Next, Paul heard her voice over the hospital speakers

“Ian F, Ian F, please come to reception You have a visitor Ian F, Ian F”

Paul sat down in one of the chairs to wait He was holding a gift for Ian Flowers had see He had settled on a sht as he waited, and his legs shook He are of his physical presence in the chair and wanted to seat hie when Ian first saw hi to find the best co open There it was, the face that had existed every day in his iination, now in front of hiht and alert, and he was taller than Paul had re his head anymore

“Hi,” Ian said He sap in his front teeth

Paul’s pupils dilated “You look great,” he said “Here” He thrust the plant at Ian

“What is it?”

“I brought you so It’s…”

Ian raised one eyebrow “You broughtplant?”

“I was looking at the plants in the shop and I thought you ht befor you”