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"It's like we say in St. Olaf, Christmas without fruitcake is like St. Sigmund's Day without the headless boy."

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  • Bonnie: [In hospital, Dorothy is very nervous about surgery on her foot. Bonnie, the lady in the bed next to her, is exercising] I hope my exercising doesn't bother you.
  • Dorothy: No not at all. What is it some kind of therapy you have to do?
  • Bonnie: No - I just like to stay healthy.
  • Dorothy: Well, I hate to break this to you, Bonnie, but you're in a hospital the exercises aren't working.
  • Bonnie: Surgery today, huh?
  • Dorothy: Yes. And I might as well warn you I am the best patient in the whole world.
  • Bonnie: Oh I can put up with it for one night. And then tomorrow it is my turn in the operating room.
  • Dorothy: You're having surgery too?
  • Bonnie: Yep.
  • Dorothy: And you're smiling?
  • Bonnie: I've had this procedure before, the first time I was as nervous as you are. This time I know what to expect.
  • Dorothy: You're having the same operation, again? I mean, don't they get it right around here the first time.
  • Dorothy: Oh no, its nothing like that. About three years ago I had a mastectomy and - now I'm in for another.
  • Dorothy: And you're not scared?
  • Bonnie: I'm petrified. No one's that brave accept in the movies and on television. But at least this time I know what I'm facing. I've gone through all the steps before. I have considered the alternatives... dealt with the reality. The last time - I think I cried the moment the doctor told me and I didn't stop until they wheeled me off to surgery. And later, I cried because there was so much pain I didn't think it would ever go away, but it did. And it will again. You get through it. You go on. When it comes right down to it what other choice do we have? It could have been a lot worse I could have missed out on these last three years. [Dorothy is teary eyed and silent] Dorothy, are you alright?...How'd you feel?
  • Dorothy: Like a fool. Like a damn fool.

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