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	<title>Two Hawks Quarterly &#187; pajamas</title>
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		<title>Blue by Loretta Williams</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I still miss those pajamas — my hospital pajamas — white with blue roses and thin stripes.  My mother made the pajamas for me when I was seven. It was my first trip to the hospital to see if doctors could divine the odd sloshing rhythm that had made my heart unreliable since birth.  Whatever the cause, it was not benign because my body had begun a dangerous seesaw.  Every growth spurt meant I had managed to live that much longer, was perhaps capable of surviving my fickle heart, yet every inch of height was a new burden and a simple act like walking would sometimes leave me spinning, or gasping or blue-white still.    Barium. An alkaline earth metal. Number 6 on the periodic table. A soft, silver-white, chemically active, poisonous metal used for spark-plug electrodes and in vacuum tubes. In moist air it may spontaneously ignite. Barium carbonate is used in glass, as a pottery glaze, and as a rat poison. Barium chromate is used as a paint pigment and in safety matches. Barium sulfate is virtually insoluble in water and acids; it can be used to coat the alimentary tract to increase the contrast for X-ray photography [...]]]></description>
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