as a little girl she was ( hit by a car oh god i could never stand anything like that again like aileen but what if he 's sick really sick cancer spinal meningitis leukemia brain tumor like john gunther 's son or muscular dystrophy oh jeez kids his age get leukemia all the time radium treatments chemotherapy we could n't afford anything like that but of course they just ca n't turn you out to die on the street can they and anyway he 's all right all right all right you really should n't let yourself think ) ( danny- ) ( about aileen and ) ( dannee- ) ( that car ) ( dannee- ) but tony was n't there .