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Richard Rapport is a neurosurgeon and author of Nerve Endings: The Discovery of the Synapse (W.W. Norton, 2005), and Physician: The Life of Paul Besson (Barricade Books, 2001). He lives in Seattle with his wife, the writer Valerie Trueblood.
Originally appeared in Poetry magazine.
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