His daughter crouched by his pillow and asked, as she often did, "Do I have to go to school today?" Her eyes had turned narrow from crying, then sleeping; her nightshirt had a silvery unicorn on it.
The hope for a narrow majority is a far cry from the hopes Conservatives had only a few months ago of sweeping back to power after 13 years of Labour government on a wave of support like that which brought the last period of Conservative rule, Margaret Thatcher's thumping victory in 1979.
It wasn't until Feb. 13 that a woman around the corner on Fourth Avenue noticed a cat crying out from a deep, narrow shaft between her building and the adjacent one.
That is a hopelessness that cries out for more than just narrow "school reform".
"Leave them alone — haven't they suffered for losing their son?" cried an elderly woman standing in the narrow lane.
Even so, a narrow win by Mr Ávila may prompt the FMLN to cry foul and take its protests to the street.
By around 1am today, the streets were reportedly still filled with wailing and crying mourners, inching their way forward through the narrow road.
If he cannot produce proof of Russian involvement, many will feel that he has cried wolf, using his country's geopolitical significance for narrow domestic advantage.
The "Exterminate!" battle cry foregrounds the sinister and threatening side of the Daleks, while their narrow field of vision makes them almost comically defective.
Before the Verrazano-Narrows becomes the Bloomberg Bridge and the Holland becomes the De Blasio Tunnel, I cry: Enough!
