And yet, I knew from the work I had done that if he had any of the things we were about to start testing for, that those would ultimately be his identity, and if they were his identity, they would become my identity, that that illness was going to take a very different shape as it unfolded.
ومع ذلك، علمت من العمل الذي أنجزته أنه إن كان لديه أيًّ من الأمراض  التي سنبدأ بتحليلها عليه، فستكون هذه هويته النهائية، وكونها هويته فستصبح هويتي، أن ذلك المرض كان سيأخذ شكلاً  مختلفًا تمامًا عند تكشّفه.