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GOTAMA RETURNS
Miss Buddha
Chapter Seventeen — Still River
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Doctor Ross answered the phone herself.
“Good morning,” said Ananda, and introduced himself.
“How can I help you?” she asked in a pleasant but professional voice.
“I am writing a book on first-time pregnancies and first-time motherhood, and Melissa Marten is one of my research subjects.”
“Yes?”
“I believe she is your patient.”
“Yes, she is.”
“How is she doing? Are things going as expected?”
“Who did you say you were?” No longer quite so pleasant.
“Ananda Wolf. I’m a writer.”
“And you are doing research?”
“Yes.”
“As a researcher, you should know that I cannot discuss any of my patients without a signed release.”
Ananda grew very alert, almost painfully so. He found himself on very thin ice, and it was cracking — cold, threatening water below.
But there’s nothing like necessity to sharpen the senses, and in this case the intellect. “You have not received it?” Ananda heard himself say.
