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JOSEPH! ME TOO. YES. WELL, WHEN I'M 60 SORRY! IT WAS A REALLY SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENS, I-Iff NICE CAFE. ALL YOU CAN PO IS LET IT FLOW ANP LET IT GO. \\ I PON'T UNPERSTANP. JUST A MINUTE AGO WEREN'T YOU...REALLY UPSET? I WISH IT WERE THAT EASY. IT'S NOT THAT EASY. LIFE'S NOT EASY—BUT IT'S ALL WE'VE GOT...I WOULDN'T HAVE NEEPEP THAT OLP CAFE MUCH LONGER ANYWAY. WHAT PO YOU MEAN? I HAVE A RARE FORM OF LEUKEMIA, A GENETIC THING. NOT TOO BAP, AS PISEASES GO. EXCEPT IT KILLS YOU. I CAN'T ONE TWIN& ABOUT PYIN&. BELIEVE YOU'RE GOING IT SURE GIVES YOU A SENSE OF PERSPECTIVE. I PON'T WORRY ABOUT TO PIE. THE SMALL STUFF. HECK, IT'S WHERE WILL // ALL SMALL STUFF. YOU GO? WELLy NOT TOPAY JUST LIKE OR TOMORROW. BUT SOON THAT? ENOUGH. MEANTIME, I HAVE SOME PLACES TO SEE ANP I PON'T KNOW WWAT TO THINOS TO PO. TIME TO MOVE ON. SAY. MAKES NO PIFFERENCE, REALLY. MAYBE I'LL JUST FOLLOW THE SUN. YEP. SAY GOOPBYE. 103

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r IT'S OETTINO IF I CAN C-ET ^ HARPER TO SURPRISE WT REAPy FOR THE TEAM k^ YOU. TRYOUTS IN THREE WEEKS, ■ flft^a^flgggggpk THAT WILL SURPRISE ME/ 8 M®|B^8^i've OOT TO ^ BHHr CONCENTRATE, BUT— IM I CAN'T OET HER OUT OF My MINP. you CAN'T OET LOT OF THINOS OUT OP yOUR MINP. ^ SO BEOINNINO TOMORROW ^ MORN1NO, ANP FOR THE NEXT TWENTy- ^ FOUR HOURS, I WANT yOU TO CARRy A NOTEBOOK EVERyWHERE yOU GO ANP WRITE f YOU'P BETTER > POWN EVERy RANPOM THOUGHT THAT MAKE THAT A LAROE >S^ POPS INTO yOUR HEAP. ^df V NOTEBOOK. > 117

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MANY YEARS A&O I PIPN'T KNOW A BASTE FROM A CROSS-STITCH. LEFT THE MENPINO TO MY WIFE, ^ WHICH REMINPS ME, YOUR LAST MOVE IN THE . BUT .AFTgR SHE PIEP I JUST TOOK IT UR OYM THE OTHER NIOHT ^ WAS SLOPPY, ^SHIRTS STILE NEEP MENPINO, AW IT'S A XT WAS THE WAY TO REMEMBER HER. W BEST PISMOUNT FOR ME, ST- ALL nioht; SEWINO IS A KINP OF ) JM1 ^ THE PISMOUNT WAS MEPITATION. FINE. I'M TALKING ABOUT HOW YOU STUFFEP YOUR OEAR INTO V. YOUR OYM BAO. ^ 119

WHAT WAS WHEN you THAT ABOUT?^ CAUGHT THE MUG, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING ABOUT? WELL, NOTHING. THAT'S RIGHT. JUST THE MUG. yOU WEREN'T LOST IN yOUR USUAL PREAMWORLP ANP REVERIE. yOU WERE RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW. yEAH, LIKE WHEN I'M REALLy CONCENTRATING IN THE GYM. yOU'RE NOT ALWAYS IN THE GYM. yOU'RE _ IN THE WORLP. SO? WHAT? ’the PIFFERENCE BETWEEN US, PAN, IS THAT _yOU PRACTICE GYMNASTICS. I PRACTICE EVERyTHING. you TREAT yOUR GyMNASTICS AS SPECIAL, ANP EVERyTHING ELSE AS ORPINARY TO ME, THERE ARE NO ORPINARy MOMENTS. I GIVE EVERyTHING I PO-WALKING, BREATHING, EATING— THE SAME ATTENTION THAT yOU GIVE TO A POUBLE SOMERSAULT. THAT IS THE SECRET OF THE WARRIOR'S WAY PAN. ANP THAT IS yOUR KEy TO THE GATEWAY no

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^ THE GYM'S LOCKEP. SO HOW PIP ^ you ^ET ON, I HAVE MY ^ WAVS...OKAY, SO I PLIRTEP A LITTLE WITN SAM MY, YOU'RE 50 5ERIOU5 t. TONIOHT. ^ J05EPN TOLP ME ABOUT NI5 ILLNESS. , YE5, X KNOW. OP COURSE I LOVE HIM. ANP . NE LOVES ME. HA NA NA/ -Hi 1 ON NO/^ TOLP ME (you MEAN NE NEVER . WNAT?^ TOLP YOU? HE'S MY BROTHER, SILLY/. APTER SHOWING JOY NIS MOVES, PAN OOES POR THE PISMOUNT... 126

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ON LIFE CAN BE Wlf WHAT? COMPLICATED, ON MANY > IVE SEEN THIS^ THINOS. COMINO... JUST DIDN'T WHAT THINOS? ^ KNOW WHEN. _ TALK TO ME/ wmr irs... 1 ... JOSEPH^^^ ^HE'S STARTING TO HAVE THESE SPELLS. I HAVE TO BE THERE FOR HIM. HE HAS NO ^ ONE ELSE. ^ ^ NO, HE WOULD NEVER— ^ WHEN OUR PARENTS DIED, WE WENT TO LIVE WITH AN UNCLE WHO DRANK, ^ COT VIOLENT... AND ONE DAY HE TRIED TO... ...DO THINCS TO ME. ^ JOSEPH STOPPED HIM AND WE RAN. I WAS TEN YEARS OLD HE TOOK CARE OF ME...HE WENT ^ HUNCRY SO I COULD EAT. NOW I CAN BE THERE FOR HIM. DO YOU UNDERSTAND? ^ NO, yOU CAN'T. ^ YOUR PATH LEADS ELSEWHERE DAN—AND IT ISN'T WIDE ENOUOH FOR TWO. ^ WHO TOLD YOU THAT— IT'S NOT ^ SOCRATES? OUR TIME TO BE ^ TOGETHER. . I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT. v I WON'T/ 134

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X KNOW THAT All YOU GUYS WERE CLAP TO SEE PAN'S RECOVERY, ANP THAT YOU SHARE MY PISAPPOINTMENT THAT HE'S NOT HERE. BUT YOU KNOW IT MUST HAVE BEEN SOMETHING IMPORTANT... HELL, A EOT OF THINOS IN THE WORLP ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN WINNING AN ATHLETIC COMPETITION. BUT THERE'S A PIECE OF THE WORLP RIOHT HERE, RIC-HT NOW. YOU'VE WORKEP HARP FOR IT, ANP X KNOW YOU CAN RISE TO THE OCCASION... 143

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PURINO THE COMPETITION, RICK ..PAN WORKS THE POES A STRAPPLE LEAP... POMMEL HORSE... OAA ...A O/MNAST PROM SOUTHERN ILLINOIS VAULTS... ...PAN POES AN IRON CROSS ON THE RINOS. 145

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THE COACH ANNOUNCER... SUPPENLY LOOKS THE WARM-UPS ARE O'/ER. WILE THE AROUNP... O/MNASTS TAKE THEIR SEATS? PAN OAZES OUT A WINPOW IN AN ISOLATEP STAIRWELL OP THE ARENA... 147

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