Over the course of a day and a night, from their adjacent beds in the ward, the two men tell each other their stories.

We used to think it must be Polish because two other patients in adjacent beds were Poles.

On adjacent beds his father and son were stirring.

He returned to the Magic Man, sat on the adjacent bed, elbows on knees.

Cristane, breathing deeply on an adjacent bed, seemed to be in a meditative sleep.

Three generations of men from one family who had been visiting Gateway of India lay in adjacent beds.

'I didn't know you were home,' said Terry, as he sat down on the adjacent bed.

He looked toward the box of cans on the adjacent bed.

Leila Abed Ali, in an adjacent bed, had a story, too.

He peered beyond the IV rack, past the foot of the adjacent bed.