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It was then I read the testimony that Abed gave the morning after the crash, of driving down the right lane of a highway toward Jerusalem.
On this xeroxed piece of paper, the crash had not yet happened.
Abed said that I should call back in a few weeks, and when I did, and a recording told me that his number was disconnected, I let Abed and the crash go.
A friend pointed out to me that all of my big stories mirrored my own, each centering on a life that had changed in an instant, owing, if not to a crash, then to an inheritance, a swing of the bat, a click of the shutter, an arrest.
Still, Abed was far from my mind, when last year, I returned to Israel to write of the crash, and the book I then wrote, "Half-Life," was nearly complete when I recognized that I still wanted to meet Abed, and finally I understood why: to hear this man say two words: "I'm sorry."
Who was I? Was I who I had been before the crash, before this road divided my life like the spine of an open book?
He had problems with his side and his legs too, and, oh, he'd lost his teeth in the crash.
Abed then rose and turned on the TV so that I wouldn't be alone when he left the room, and returned with polaroids of the crash and his old driver's license.
Twenty-one years later, he was now thinner than his wife, his skin slack on his face, and looking at Abed looking at his young self, I remembered looking at that photograph of my young self after the crash, and recognized his longing.
"The crash changed both of our lives," I said.
Abed then showed me a picture of his mashed truck, and said that the crash was the fault of a bus driver in the left lane who did not let him pass.
I did not want to recap the crash with Abed.
And so I didn't point out that in his own testimony the morning after the crash, Abed did not even mention the bus driver.
"I understand," I said, "that the crash was not your fault, but does it make you sad that others suffered?"
He'd lived an unholy life before the crash, and so God had ordained the crash, but now, he said, he was religious, and God was pleased.
I had the thought that there, on Route 804, there were perpetrators and victims, dyads bound by a crash.
Did it point up the degree to which he'd absolved himself of the crash?
"Um, Abed," I said, "I thought you had a few driving issues before the crash."
But it was hard for me to relate to one who had so completely washed his hands of his own calamitous doing, to one whose life was so unexamined that he said he thought two people had died in the crash.
I wished to tell him that one does not have to say that a bad thing is good, that a crash is from God and so a crash is good, a broken neck is good.
When one morning, years after the crash, I stepped onto stone and the underside of my left foot felt the flash of cold, nerves at last awake, it was exhilarating, a gust of snow.
What if I make like a car crash test?"
So I have a crash test.
But the Great Recession in 2007 and 2008, the great crash, broke this illusion.
The root mechanism of a dragon-king is a slow maturation towards instability, which is the bubble, and the climax of the bubble is often the crash.
So the cause of the crash, the cause of the crisis has to be found in an inner instability of the system, and any tiny perturbation will make this instability occur.
It may be a crash.
There might be a crash.
This is not a crash.
Before going further, let me give you a crash course in plant biology.
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