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John McCain called to try to talk me down. I put aside “Scourge,” the book I was reading about smallpox and listened. “There's nothing wrong with being afraid,” the senator said in that soft, reassuring voice. “Every time I heard the guard's key chain rattle when he came to my cell at an odd hour, I felt fear, but it didn't incapacitate me.” Full Story