Goines On: Om-m-m

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It was now less than a week before the Goineses would fly Delta to Charles DeGaulle Airport. Maybe that was why Goines’ blood pressure was reading high. He had sat still – and he thought, relaxedly – for a couple of minutes before putting the cuff on, but the first reading was 148 systolic, and the next two, after sitting still for a couple more minutes each time, were both 154. No, no, no, he said to himself, unrelaxedly, before he took one more reading: 163?!