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• Abscond: To be unexpectedly called away to the bedside of a dying relative and miss the return train.
• abscond, v: To be unexpectedly called away to the bedside of a dying relative and miss the return train.
• Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questio
  and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends....
• Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questio
  and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends....
• Am I dying or is this my birthday?" (When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside.
  ) ~~ Lady Nancy Astor, d. 1964...
• If I promise to miss you, will you go away?
• The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.
  -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936)...
• Q: "Your bedside manner is admirable, Doctor. I'm sure your patients recover quickly, just to get away from you.
  -- "Deja Q", Stardate 43539.1...