Wanting only to be kind, she began hunting for the ring in all seriousness, peering at the riverbed, fishing for gleams in the water, her hands aching from the cold as if the flesh were being dragged off her bones.

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All those in favour of her call were told to put up their hands.

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Six months of treatment with toxic interleukin-2, one of the only treatments for advanced kidney cancer, had eroded nerves in her hands and feet, caused frequent vomiting and made her skin peel all over--but did nothing to slow the tumors' relentless growth.

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Had he been, he would have hung every rag of canvas he owned on her, right to the stuns'ls, and would have had the hands wetting it all down in the hope of catching even the vaguest of breezes.

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