Lewis calls Rachel at home just as she's about to go to bed. She tells him about her feelings when she is at the hospital, and that her grandfather is just evaporating. She fears he is growing smaller and smaller before her eyes until there is nothing left. Sometimes she feels numb.
Lewis tells her about a fire drill at school. Rachel tells him sometimes she thinks about going to school. She gets up and puts on her clothes, but her feet just take her back to the hospital.....
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