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What Happened?
One tube
two tubes
three tubes…
twelve tubes of blood left my body
I had my last meal 18 hours ago
Saltine crackers
And a can of ginger ale
I’m ready to sleep
But they carried me away
Into a room with plastic chairs
a machine shooting out thin red beams
A short-haired lady with blue mask
Greeted me
Soon
my arm
constricted by a rubber tourniquet
My head
pressed against the machine
My vein
pierced by a needle
My blood
stained by the fluorescent dye
Body
fluid
Left my body
Foreign substance
invaded my body
My body could not take it
A flash of purple appeared before my eye…
All I could see was purple
All I could hear was purple
All I could feel was purple
“Hey !, Get up !”
I heard voices but could not see
I opened my eyes
Ten
No, twenty people surrounded me
Two holding my hands
Two other tightly grasping my feet...
I realized what happened
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