PART 1 · LESSON 1 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES Free
The Hospital at Dawn
The hospital across the river at ten past four on the fifteenth of July, in the rains: Dad, congratulations, a girl; how is my wife; Mum is fine, three kilos two hundred; can I hold her; support her head, Dad; come here, she has your nose; she's so small, I've cried twice already; Dad, sign here, the room is on the fifth floor: being called by your role instead of you.
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The maternity ward of the hospital across the river from the pier, dawn on the fifteenth of July, rain on the window: the nurse speaks as a woman and calls Jack Dad; Jack keeps the polite word with her and calls her Nurse; Nam and Jack speak as a couple, no particle.
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