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For a week or so stability returned; patients remained within the expected therapeutic parameters–no one went missing or attempted suicide, and no information on Toby Rathbone was forthcoming. Somehow my Friday afternoon became free and with the weather in the fifties, Bobby and I shot hoops in my old driveway. We played a game of horse, throwing the ball through the basket attached to the garage. Bobby finessed a lay-up with his right hand, then one with his left, and then made a jump shot from the free throw line. I followed every shot, making the lay-ups but missing the jump shot and getting a horse. I made a couple of long shots that Bobby missed giving him two horses and putting me one up. We continued, rapidly downing and missing shots at a good pace, to where I was sweating and
