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What <strong>The</strong>y Were Thinking<br />
• Killers Among Us<br />
• Camping Lessons<br />
• It Isn't Easy Being Green<br />
• Unreal Estate<br />
• <strong>The</strong> Slacker Temp<br />
• Plainspeak<br />
• What <strong>The</strong>y Were Thinking<br />
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW<br />
WHAT THEY WERE THINKING<br />
Barry Bransfield, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston<br />
Photograph by ROY DI TOSTI<br />
"I am being treated for cancer of the brain, and I went in every day at 9 o'clock for<br />
my 15 minutes of radiation therapy. It was like a job, the job of curing myself. No<br />
one is in the room, so you get into a meditative state. I don't think of the cancer. I<br />
was just thinking about things like Muddy Waters, because I was listening to him.<br />
Blues is the celebration of sadness. I think of my family and my wife the whole<br />
time. But I think of other things to keep going. I am just turning 50, and this is not<br />
what I had planned. Your mind races over all kinds of things, from science to<br />
friends. And you just hope God is thinking of you."<br />
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<strong>August</strong> <strong>22</strong>, 1999<br />
http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/199908<strong>22</strong>mag-thinking.html (1 of 2) [8/<strong>22</strong>/1999 9:15:44 PM]<br />
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