I just remembered something funny that happened to me. This was back in 1998 and I had been having some knee pain.
I was curled up asleep and my husband came in to join me. He put his hand on my knee and said, “Heal.”
I was half asleep, so I replied, “Knee.”
He put his hand on my other knee and said, “Heal.”
I replied, “No, knee.”
“What?”
“That’s not my heel. That’s a knee.”
I was so sleepy, I thought he was naming body parts!
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