This is Gaetano and Sam Harris, his last lover. Sam and I shared a flight to Vancouver when we learned that Gaetano had fallen ill during a visit there. Both of us are perpetual conversationalists, but we had not a word to say during those two hours. Neither one of us could believe it then, and neither one of us can believe it now.
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