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.
E ainda, eu sabia devido  ao trabalho que tinha realizado. que se ele tivesse qualquer das coisas  que estávamos prestes a examinar, que aquelas seriam, em última  análise, a sua identidade, e se fossem sua identidade,  seriam a minha identidade, que essa doença iria tomar uma forma  muito diferente ao ser descoberta.