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    "I'm scared."

    The facade, so carefully constructed over weeks of quiet suffering, shattered with a single sentence. He'd made jokes about the hospital food and complained about daytime television and treated his deteriorating condition like a minor inconvenience rather than a death sentence.

    "Of dying?" James asked gently.

    "Of you forgetting me."

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