Some of the statements are incoherent messes, but others are strangely illuminating, providing deep access to areas of my life that I’d never before examined. I wrote about my passion for journalism: “Angela sees something in me because she knows how hard it is to be good at this job, but that’s journalism, it’s a hard job. and maybe it’s not for me I have a very powerful gut.” And I went on about my need for structure in a life that was quickly falling to pieces: “Routine is important to me, as is discipline without it I tend to go a little bit haywire.” At last they climbed into the gaping bay of an Air Force cargo plane, where tanks had surely gone before them. It was hot. Nobody would say where they were going. The big African American man who sat across from him noticed Thiele’s silver acupressure bracelet, magnetic spheres at each end, admired it, and asked the woman next to him, honey, would you like one like that?Oh Lord, this guy’s going to… Thiele steeled himself. “You Dr. Thiele?” The woman interrupted his imaginings. “Ya.” She, a relative of a hospital security officer, didn’t want his bracelet. She told the man, “You let him keep it.” They landed near San Antonio in a storm and surrendered their bags to sniffer dogs and inspectors who worked under the shelter of an airplane wing while they stood on the tarmac, the heavens swiping them with rain. “We gotta get out of here,” the fainting nurse declared. They spoke with an Air Force somebody who put them in a cab on the way to a Holiday Inn. The Spanish-speaking driver prayed with them in the parking lot. Joslin, E. P., H. F. Root, P. White, and A. Marble, eds. 1959.The Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus. 10th edition. Philadelphia: Lea& Febiger. Joslin, E. P., H. F. Root, P. White, A. Marble, and C. C. Bailey, eds. 1946.The Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus. 8th edition. Philadelphia: Lea& Febiger. critical period for, ref 1, ref 2, ref 3