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.
Mesmo assim, devido ao trabalho que tinha realizado, eu sabia que se ele tivesse qualquer das coisas que estávamos prestes a testar, essas seriam, em última análise, a sua identidade, e, se fossem a sua identidade, tornam-se-iam na minha identidade, e que essa doença iria tomar uma forma  muito diferente enquanto se desenrolasse.