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"I wonder if it will upset you," he reflected to himself. He gazed into the sun; the minutes passed.
"Try me," I finally said.
He sighed, and then looked into my eyes, seeming to forget the road completely for a time.
Whatever he
saw there must have encouraged him. He looked into the sun -- the light of the setting orb
glittered off
his skin in ruby-tinged sparkles -- and spoke.
"I was born in Chicago in 1901." He paused and glanced at me from the corner of his eyes. My
face was
carefully unsurprised, patient for the rest. He smiled a tiny smile and continued. "Carlisle found
me in a
hospital in the summer of 1918. I was seventeen, and dying of the Spanish influenza."
He heard my intake of breath, though it was barely audible to my own ears. He looked down into
my
eyes again.
"I don't remember it well -- it was a very long time ago, and human memories fade." He was lost
in his
thoughts for a short time before he went on. "I do remember how it felt, when Carlisle saved me.
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