A mysterious illness with few symptoms and no cure is sucking the life from Tony Wallace
It has sapped his strength, stolen his mobility, ended his career as a police officer and shrunk his world to a tiny space where every move, every word, even every thought, takes everything he has."I am here, but there is no trace of me," he wrote.
Instead, Tony finds himself living out the poem's final line:"This is how the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper."
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