A Few Words of Appreciation

          Thank you for choosing me. Thank you for choosing to study anatomy, for differentiating between a fever and a minor disturbance, a small misunderstanding, a passing whim. You have a dog and so you can tell intuitively as well as scientifically. When attention wanes. When anyone else will do. When a breastbone is no different from any other breastbone and when a breastbone will never release you, not until you’ve gnawed it to shards that scratch your throat going down.