It was dry and broken. Her hair was falling out in some places on her head.

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Walters had a health scare in January when she suffered a cut on her forehead after falling on a stair while visiting the British ambassador's residence in Washington.

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Her skin is prickling, the hair on the back of her neck rising and falling, as if ghosts are leaving and entering the room.

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She told with great emphasis a story about her mother, who remembered falling and breaking her teeth on the steps leading into the courtyard of a lost family home, steps that were tall and broad to accommodate the enormous tread of a riding elephant.

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