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By the time he'd told me where we
were headed he was shoving the frosted double glass doors open. I wandered into the room and
quickly realized it to be a maze of absolute horror for any person with
aichmophobia, let alone trypanophobia, which I had. There were too many pointed objects and
needles everywhere; but it was the medical procedures involving what I could only
guess to be volunteer patients that scared me the most. I gazed at arms
stretched out with IVs and other apparatus; tubing ran in every direction: some
red, some clear. My body stiffened, a chilling curl crawled down my spine and
then the sweats began in drastic contrast to the shivers.
"Are you okay," Dr.
Landelli asked and grabbed my arm in a useless gesture as my body fell away.
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