And the other medications for asthma often demanded a more powerful reckoning, cruel side effects like weight gain or stunted growth or humped back that could conceivably one day be visited upon the innocent perfection of her little boy's body.

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His back played him up, so at the beginning of each visit I humped hessian sacks of food and wine through the garden from his ancient M.

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