After hearing the news of her own impending demise, she felt a major relief, and even a sense of elation which she found difficult to hide. 'The heaviness, the pain, the ennui of day to day life will finally end', she thought. Her family, distraught, was perplexed by her reaction, which was attributed to shock and discombobulation. They drugged her and paid institutions to make incisions and perform procedures on her. Now she lays back recovering---the heaviness, the pain, the ennui of day to day life still hovering over, but far enough for some sunlight to break through corpuscularly.
