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`` All right , '' he said . Three years later another spell more debilitating than this migraine took place . Whereas the other one , and ones like it , felt like the impact of being smacked against some type of a wall , this one was a gradual crescendo of being smashed into the abyss . It was 6:00 and she was returning from a trip to New York City where she had attended a symphony with her man when she missed an entrance to a roadside park . Needing even more to stretch , she veered off the interstate to a small town . Although it was wintertime , a new brand of boy keen to play a global sport was in a baseball diamond practicing a sundry of soccer maneuvers from kicks and stops to stylized manipulations of balls . She parked outside the diamond and got out .