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// Reunion - Chapter 52 
// Story: Diary of the Night 
// by CalebH 
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“Physician heal thyself.” It is an old saying, much older than even myself. I have forgotten its origin and its true meaning, so why does it come to mind? A surgeon plying his trade to himself is near suicidal at best and a doctor doing the same is no less foolish. And yet here I have sat trying to cure my own woes. 

Physician, heal thyself. Is it some half remembered teaching of a forgotten sage? Physician, heal thyself. Perhaps it is the parting phrase of an old joke. Physician, heal thyself. Perhaps an old taunt when slaying an enemy surgeon. Physician, heal thyself. I think it is the summation of some old mare’s tale; words of wisdom that mothers would cluck to their foals.

Heal thyself.

This will bother me to no end. But even as the old meaning is lost in time the phrase has been made new. I chant it to myself at times if only to remember that I must at least go out and see others from time to time. 
-L