Percy, as narrator, says, "I said something was 'sick,' and he looked at me kind of startled, as if he'd never heard the word used that way before".
If anyone asks you why you are not in school, say something like, "I was sick and my dad couldn't come pick me up".
I asked if the poet was sick or something.
I was convinced I was sick, that something was wrong with me.
He put his hand on my forehead and asked if I was sick or something.
DON'T say things like "you can have another child" or "maybe it was sick or something" or "maybe it's better to adopt".
But a week later I am still getting furious responses from women, a visceral reaction which shows this is still something women want to talk about... despite it being something they are sick of talking about.
I was sick of adding something on that should be a part of me".
Ron Harper, once an exceptional scorer, had become, late in his career in Chicago, a defensive specialist, and he, too, was sick — apparently from something he had eaten.
She now knows that as an infant, she was sick frequently -- something attributed to her cleft.
During a late-night chat with my younger daughter when she was sick, Avery said something that moved me deeply.
