There was a shop on the ground floor selling an eclectic assortment of goods.
I was aware that it was very much the done thing to take a gift when visiting a patient, but what to purchase?
I didn’t know Sammy from Adam. Comestibles seemed pointless,
since the purpose of my visit was to bring him his own food, items that he’d only very recently selected for himself.
Given that he was in a coma, reading material seemed somewhat irrelevant.
There wasn’t much else that might be suitable, however.
The shop carried a small range of toiletries, but it seemed inappropriate for me, a stranger of the opposite sex,
to present him with items pertaining to his bodily functions and, anyway,
a tube of toothpaste or a packet of disposable razors did not strike me as very charming gifts.
I tried to remember the nicest gift I’d ever received. Apart from Polly the plant, I couldn’t think of anything.
Alarmingly, Declan came into my mind. My first and only boyfriend,
I’d very nearly succeeded in erasing him from my memory altogether, so it was rather distressing to be reminded of him.
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