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This mother spun around with the surprise of someone who just beheld the dead walking. As she stammered her confusion, the doctor directed Susan toward the secretary to pick out a toy or lollypop. "Mrs. Hallam, we need to talk. Your daughter does not need casts, she needs a neurosurgeon. A good one." Who knows what scope of recognition, melancholic projection, and panic can all explode in the mind at a single word uttered? They don't come from nowhere. These are things under pressure, pent up by denial. When denial shatters, well, the doctor was suddenly steadying a wobbly Mrs. Hallam by the arm while Susan, having a devil of a time blowing up her balloon, complained, "My head hurnts." Macaluso wondered to himself how anybody could miss that distinctive voice. This was why mom was really here. Not the feet. He wasn't the one who had given those other girls lifts.