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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    6:43 pm
    @@@@@As for the estate, all I'm proposing is
    @@@@@As for the estate,
    all I'm proposing is that we dispense with the ego
    that usually allows the lawyers to swallow the
    creamThere's plenty for all of us, if we're
    reasonable
    He finished his beer, never taking his eyes off me
    "Sometimes I wonder if you're the same man I used
    to work for," he said
    "That man died in his pickup," I said
    39
    vii
    Pam took the deal, and I think she might have
    taken me again instead of the deal if I'd offered
    - it was a look that came and went on her face
    like sunshine through clouds when we had our lunch
    to discuss the details - but I didn't offerI had
    Florida on my mind, that refuge of the newly wed
    and the nearly deadAnd I think in her heart of
    hearts, even Pam knew it was for the best - knew
    that the man who had been pulled out of his ruined
    Dodge Ram with his steel hardhat crushed around
    his ears like a crumpled pet-food can wasn't the
    same guy who'd gotten inThe life with Pam and
    the girls and the construction company was over;
    there were no other rooms in it to exploreThere
    were, however, doorsThe one marked SUICIDE was
    currently a bad option, as DrKamen had pointed
    outThat left the one marked DUMA KEY
    One other thing occurred in my other life before I
    slipped through that door, thoughIt was what
    happened to Monica Goldstein's Jack Russell
    Terrier, Gandalf
    40
    viii
    If you've been picturing my convalescent retreat
    as a lakeside cottage standing in splendid
    isolation at the end of a lonely dirt road in the
    north woods, you better think again - we're
    talking your basic suburbiaOur place by the lake
    stood at the end of Aster Lane, a paved street
    running from East Hoyt Avenue to the waterOur
    closest neighbors were the Goldsteins
    In the middle of October, I finally took Kathi
    Green's advice and began to walkThese were not
    the Great Beach Walks I took later, and I came
    back from even these short outings with my bad hip
    crying for mercy (and more than once with tears
    standing in my eyes), but they were steps in the
    right directionI was returning from one of these
    walks when MrsFevereau hit Monica's dog
    I was three-quarters of the way home when the
    Fevereau woman went past me in her ridiculous
    mustard-colored HummerAs always, she had her
    cell phone in one hand and a cigarette in the
    other; as always she was going too fastI barely
    41
    noticed, and I certainly didn't see Gandalf dash
    into the street up ahead, concentrating only on
    Monica, coming down the other side of the street
    in Full Girl S
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    6:50 pm
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    Does he? Wanda, open your eyesHe's starting to… How do I explain it so that you'll
    understand right? To feel about you… the way you feel about JaredCan't you see that?
    I couldn't answer for two heartbeats
    That's impossible,I finally replica cartier said
    “Do you think what happened this morning will influence Aaron or Brandt?” Ian asked in a low
    voice from the other side of the doors
    “You mean Kyle getting a bye?”
    “YeahThey didn't have to…do anything beforeNot when it looked so likely that Kyle louis vuitton prices would
    do it for them
    “You think that will be enough?” Ian asked
    “I've saved both their livesIf I ask them for something, they'll do it
    “You'd bet her life on that?”
    There was a pause
    “We'll keep an eye on her,” Jared finally said
    Another purse louis vuitton long silence
    “Aren't you going to go eat?” Jared asked
    “I think I'll hang out here for a bit How about you?”
    Jared didn't answer“Is there something you want to say to me, Jared?”
    “The girl in there…” Jared said slowly
    “Yes?”
    “That body cartier santos 100 doesn't belong to her
    “Your point?”
    Jared's voice was hard when he answered“Keep your hands off it
    A low chuckle from Ian“Jealous, Howe?”
    “That's not really the issue Ian was sarcastic now
    “Wanda seems to be, more or less, cooperating with chanel fake Melanie
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    6:51 pm
    @@@@@"Ah guess that's one box Ah'll never get,"
    @@@@@"Ah guess that's one box Ah'll never get," he said casuallyActually, he was feeling very tired, and his restlessness had spent itself temporarily"Ah guess we might as well get on back," he said
    The men descended the ridge and struck out along the road leading back to the bivouac areaThey passed a gutted tank which lay moldering off the road, its treads broken and rusted, looking like the skeleton of a lizard"Goddam snake like that soon," Martinez saidHe was looking at a corpse which lay almost naked on its backIt was an eloquent corpse, for there were no wounds on its body, and its hands were clenching the earth as if to ask for a last time the always futile questionThe naked shoulders were hunched together in anguish, and he could easily conceive the expression of pain that should have been on the corpse's mouthBut the corpse lay there without a head, and Red ached dully as he realized the impossibility of ever seeing that man's faceThere was only a bloody fragment at the terminus of the neckThe body seemed to lie in a casing of silence
    Abruptly Red realized he was sober and very wearyThe other men were already many yards ahead of him on the road, but he continued to look, drawn by some emotion he could not expressVery deep inside himself he was thinking that this was a man who had once wanted things, and the thought of his own death was always a little unbelievable to himThe man had had a childhood, a youth and a young manhood, and there had been dreams and memoriesRed was realizing with surprise and shock, as if he were looking at a corpse for the first time, that a man was really a very fragile thing
    The stench of the cave was still in his nostrils, and the cadaver gave him the same kind of horror that he had felt once in stepping on a coil of human feces in the middle of a lawnThere had been a strange self-sufficiency about that as there was now in the torso and limbs of this bodyHe realized that in a little while the fetidness of this corpse would seep into the earth and be lost, but now it was horrible in its stenchIt caused him a deep pang of fearHe could still recall the odor of the cave, and it combined with this to terrify him -- he passed from the first warm smell of decay into the pungent quivering core of the stink, a clear nauseous odor that shocked him with cold fingersIt was the smell he would have expected if he had lifted a coffin lid, and it remained in him for a long bad moment in which he looked at the body and didn't look, thought of nothing, and found his mind churning with the physical knowledge of life and death and his own vulnerability
    Then it was all over and he continued to walk, looking at the tangle of war on the left and right of the roadThe smell continued to oppress h
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    6:51 pm
    @@@@@You tried to beat me down, but I wouldn't
    @@@@@You
    tried to beat me down, but I wouldn't let youI don't care if you
    approve of me or notShe told herself that the chill she felt must be
    from a draftShe wasn't afraid, not a bitShe was going to have a
    wonderful time in CharlestonDidn't people always say that it was the
    partyingest town in the whole South? And there was no question at all
    about being invited everywhere; Aunt Pauline and Aunt Eulalie knew
    everybodyThey'd know all about Rhett, where he was living, what he
    was doingAll she'd have to do was No sense thinking about that
    nowShe'd decide when she got thereIf she thought about it now,
    she might feel nervous about going, and she had made up her mind to
    go
    Gracious! It was silly even to imagine being nervousIt wasn't as if
    Charleston was the end of the worldWhy, Tony Fontaine went off to
    Texas, a million miles away, just as easy as if it was no more than a
    ride over to DecaturShe'd been to Charleston before, tooShe knew
    where she was going It didn't mean a thing that she had hated it
    After all, she'd been so young then, only seventeen, and a new widow
    with a baby, besidesWade Hampton hadn't even cut his teeth yet
    That
    was over twelve years agoEverything would be completely different
    nowIt was all going to work out just fine, just the way she
    wanted
    "Pansy, go tell the conductor to move our things, I want to sit closer
    to the stoveThere's a draft from this window
    Scarlett sent a telegram to her aunts from the station in Augusta
    where
    she changed to the South Carolina railroad line: ARRIVING F0UR PM
    TRAIN
    FOR vISiT STOP 0NLY 0NE SERVANT STOP L0VE Scarlett She had
    thought it
    all out
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    6:43 pm
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    222
    Jason leaned forward over the bulging bar and ordered une bière, grateful that the bartender was
    too busy and the music too loud for the man to have overheard the conversationHowever, he was
    infinitely more grateful to Saint Alex of Conklin, whose primary advice to a field agent was to “get
    in bad with a mark black chanel bag first before you get in good,” the theory being that the reversal from hostility to
    amiability was far stronger for the changeBourne swallowed the beer in reliefHe had made a
    friend at Le Coeur du SoldatIt was an inroad, minor but vital, and perhaps not so minor
    Tank Shirt returned, his thick arm around the shoulders of a younger man in his early twenties,
    of medium height and with the physique gucci women watch of a large safe; he was wearing an American field jacket
    Jason started to get off the barstool“Sit, sit!” cried his new friend, leaning forward to be heard
    through the crowds and the music“I brought us a virgin
    “What?”
    “You forgot so quickly? He’s on his way to becoming a Legion recruit
    “Oh, that,” laughed Bourne, covering his gaffe“I wondered in a place like this—”
    “In a place like this,” Cartier watch tank broke in Tank Shirt, “half will take it or give it either way as long as it’s
    roughBut that’s neither here nor thereI thought he should talk to youHe’s American and his
    French is grotesque, but if you speak slow, he’ll catch on
    “No need to,” said Jason in faintly accented English“I grew up in Neufchatel, but I spent
    several years in the States
    “That’s nice to heah The American’s speech was chloe dior distinctly Deep South, his smile genuine, his
    eyes wary but unafraid
    “Then let us start again,” said the Belgian in heavily accented EnglishMaurice,
    it’s as good a name as anyMy young friend here is Ralph, at least he says it isWhat’s yours, my
    wounded hero?”
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    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    6:43 pm
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    tile - the roof of the mansion inside - rose in
    slants and angles against the blameless blue sky
    "Jumping jeepers," Ilse said - that was one she
    must have gotten from her Baptist boyfriend"This
    place belongs in Beverly Hills
    The wall ran along the east side of the narrow,
    buckled road for at least eighty yardsThere
    weren't any NO TRESPASSING signs; given that wall,
    the owner's stance on gucci bookbag door-to-door salesmen and
    proselytizing Mormons seemed perfectly clearIn
    the center was a two-piece iron gate, standing
    ajarAnd sitting just inside its open halves -
    "There she is," I murmured"The lady from down
    the beachHoly shit, it's The Bride of the
    Godfather
    "Daddy!" Ilse said, laughing and shocked at the
    same time
    The woman was seriously old, mid-eighties at least
    She was in her wheelchairAn new louis vuitton enormous pair of
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    blue Converse Hi-Tops were propped up on the
    chrome footrestsAlthough the temperature was in
    the mid-seventies, she wore a gray two-piece
    sweatsuitIn one gnarled hand a cigarette
    smolderedClapped on her head was the straw hat
    I'd seen on my walks, but on my walks I hadn't
    realized how enormous it was - not just a hat but
    a battered sombreroHer resemblance to Marlon
    Brando at the end new cartier of The Godfather - when he's
    playing with his grandson in the garden - was
    unmistakableThere was something in her lap that
    did not quite look like a pistol
    Ilse and I both wavedFor a moment she did
    nothingThen she raised one hand, palm out, in an
    Indian How gesture, and broke into a sunny and
    nearly toothless grinWhat seemed like a thousand
    wrinkles creased her face, turning her into a
    benign witchI replica tiffany jewelry never even glimpsed the house
    behind her; I was still trying to cope with her
    sudden appearance, her cool blue sneakers, her
    delta of wrinkles, and her -
    "Daddy, was that a gun?" Ilse was looking into the
    rear-view mirror, wide-eyed"Did that old lady
    have a gun?"
    153
    The car was drifting, and I saw a real possibility
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    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    6:49 pm
    @@@@@I said don't freak out, WandaHe's just
    @@@@@I said don't freak out, WandaHe's just really anxious about youHe
    heard what happened, and he's been asking for you–worried out of his mind, that kid is–and I
    don't think it's good for himI came down here to ask you to go see himBut you can't go like
    thisIt will just upset him for no good reasonSit down and eat some more
    food
    “His leg?” I demanded
    “There's a little infection,” Ian murmured“Doc wants him to stay down or he'd have come to
    get you a long time agoIf Jared wasn't practically pinning him to the bed, he would have come
    anyway“Jared almost came here and carried you out by force, but I told him to let me
    speak to you firstIt wouldn't do the kid any good to see you catatonic
    My blood felt as though it had changed into ice waterSurely just my imagination
    “What's being done?”
    Jeb shruggedKid's strong; he'll fight it off
    “Nothing to do? What do you mean?”
    “It's a bacterial infection,” Ian said“We don't have antibiotics anymore
    “Because they don't work–the bacteria are smarter than your medicinesThere has to be
    something better, something else
    “Well, we don't have anything else,” Jeb saidIt just has to run its course I murmured the words in a daze
    “Eat something,” Ian urged
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    6:54 pm
    @@@@@Wilson would hear him shuddering in the
    @@@@@Wilson would hear him shuddering in the middle of the night, and would throw his blanket over him, clucking to himself at the misery Gallagher was undergoingGallagher showed no sign of his grief except that he became even leaner and his eyes and eyelids were swollen as if he had been on a long drinking bout or had played poker for forty-eight hours at a stretch
    The men tried to feel sorry for him, but the event had given a variation to the monotonous sweep of their days on the roadFor a short time they sustained a quiet compassion when he was near and spoke in soft voices, uncomfortable in his presenceThey ended by feeling merely uncomfortable and were resentful when he sat by them, for it inhibited their speech and made them acutely uneasyRed felt a little shame and brooded over it one night on guard, deciding there was nothing he could do about itIt's tough, but I can't change itHe looked off into the night and shruggedTo hell with it, it's Gallagher's bloody nose, not mine
    The mail began to come in almost daily, and a frightening thing happenedGallagher continued to receive letters from his wifeThe first one came a few days after Father Leary had told him about her death; it had been mailed almost a month beforeWilson collected the letters for the platoon that night from the orderly room, and he debated whether to give it to Gallagher"It's gonna make him feel mighty funny," he said to Croft Croft was curious to see what happened
    Wilson's voice was casual when he gave it to Gallagher"Some mail for ya, boy He felt embarrassed and looked away
    Gallagher's face whitened as he gazed at the letter"That ain't for me," he muttered
    "It's your letter, boy Wilson put an arm on his shoulder, and Gallagher shook it off"You want me to throw it away?" Wilson asked
    Gallagher looked at the date on the envelope"No, give it to me," he blu
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    6:52 pm
    @@@@@ Melanie was an orphan, tooOh, Melly, how I
    @@@@@
    Melanie was an orphan, tooOh, Melly, how I miss youThe sky was
    darkening outside the windowsEleanor Butler asked Scarlett to draw
    the curtains when she finished her teaAs she drew the curtains on
    the last window, she heard a rumbling of thunder in the distance and a
    spattering of rain on the glass"Let's come to order," said Miss
    Eleanor"We've got a lot of business to do
    Everyone take a seatMargaret, will you keep passing the tea cakes
    and sandwiches? I don't want anyone distracted by an empty
    stomach
    Em,ina, you'll continue to pour, won't you? I'll ring for more hot
    water"Let me go get it, Miss Eleanor," said Anne"No, dear, we
    need you hereScarlett, just pull that bell rope, please, my dear
    Now, ladies and gentleman, the first order of business is very
    excitingI've received a large check from a lady in BostonWhat
    shall we do with it?"
    "Tear it up and send the pieces back to her
    "Emma! Is your brain asleep? We need all the money we can get
    Besides, the donor is Patience BedfordWe used
    to
    see her and her husband almost every year at Saratoga in the old
    days
    "Wasn't there a General Bedford in the Union Army?"
    "There was notThere was a General Nathan Bedford Forrest in our
    army
    "The finest cavalryman we had," said Edward"I don't think Ross
    would
    agree with that, Edward Margaret Butler put a plate of bread and
    butter down with a clatter"After all, he was in the cavalry with
    General
    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    6:43 pm
    @@@@@He then changed the dressing around his
    @@@@@He then changed the dressing around his neck, walked back into the small hotel room and
    fell on the bedSo Marie had found a simple, ingenious way to reach ParisGoddamn it! How
    could he find her, protect her? Had she any idea what she was doing? David would go out of his
    mindHe’d panic and make a thousand mistakesOh, my God, I am David!
    Stop it
    The telephone rang; he grabbed it off the bedside table“Yes?”
    “Santos wants to see youWith peace in his heart
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    238
    24
    The Emergency Medical Service helicopter was lowered into its threshold; the rotors were cut and
    the blades thumped to a stopFollowing EMS procedure when disembarking ambulatory patients,
    only then did the exit door open and the metal steps slap down to the groundA uniformed
    paramedic preceded Panov, turning and assisting the doctor to the tarmac, where a second man in
    civilian clothes escorted him to a waiting limousineInside were Peter Holland, director of the CIA,
    and Alex Conklin, the latter in the right jump seat, obviously for conversational purposesThe
    psychiatrist climbed in beside Holland; he took several deep breaths, sighed audibly and fell back
    into the seat
    “I am a maniac,” he stated, emphasizing each word“Certifiably insane and I’ll sign the papers
    of commitment myself
    “You’re safe, that’s all that matters, Doctor,” said Holland“Good to see you, Crazy Mo,” added
    Conklin
    “Have you any idea what I did? I purposely crashed a car into a tree with me in it! Then after
    walking at least half the distance to the Bronx, I was picked up by the only person I know who may
    have more loose bananas in her head than I doHer libido is unhinged and she’s running away from
    her trucker husband—hot on her French heels—who I subsequently learned has the cuddly name of
    the BronkMy hooker chauffeur proceeds to hold me hostage with such wiles as threatening to yell
    ‘Rape!’ in a diner filled with a collection of the NFL’s most carnivorous linebackers—except for
    one who got me out Panov abruptly stopped and reached into his pocket“Here,” he continued,
    thrusting the five driver’s licenses and the roughly six thousand dollars into Conklin’s hands
    “What’s this?” asked the bewildered Alex
    “I robbed a bank and decided to become a professional driver!
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    6:43 pm
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    got a lady up theresweetest lady in the world
    and I love her, but sometimes she thinks I'm her
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    Sometimes she pops one of her china people into a
    Sweet Owen cookie-tin and tosses it into the koi
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    "Point?"
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    believe you had a vision of your friend dead
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    "No bullshitThe gucci twirl watch question is what you're
    going to do about it, assuming you're not eager to
    see him into the ground for - may I be vulgar? -
    buttering what used to be your loafI did have this momentary thingI
    don't know how to describe it
    "Was it a momentary thing where you felt like
    chopping off his dick, then putting out his black gucci watch eyes
    with a hot toasting-fork? Was it that momentary
    thing, muchacho?" Wireman made the thumb and
    forefinger of one hand into a gun and pointed it
    at me"I was married to a Mexican lassie, and I
    know jealousy
    "Did your wife ever I stopped, suddenly aware
    all over again that I'd only met this man the day
    beforeThat was easy to gucci fabric forget
    "No, amigo, not to my knowledgeWhat she did was
    die on me His face was perfectly expressionless
    "Let's not go there, okay?"
    "Okay
    "Thing to remember about jealousy is it comes, it
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    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    6:56 pm
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    here–Violetta, Geoffrey, Andy, Paige, Aaron, Brandt, and more I couldn't see well as we jolted
    past–were skittishIt disturbed them to see Ian running headlong through them, face twisted
    with rage, with me in his arms
    And prada tote bag then they were behind usHe didn't pause until we reached the doors leaning against his
    and Kyle's roomHe kicked the red one out of the way–it hit the stone floor with an echoing
    boom–and dropped me onto the mattress on the floor
    Ian stood above me, his chest heaving with exertion and furyFor a second he turned away Chanel Bracelets and
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    I took a deep breath and rolled up onto my knees, holding my hands out, palms up, wishing that
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    hands were empty His eyes blazed–burning brighter than I chanel white j12 watch had ever seen them,
    blue flames“You have to see that… that I can't stay
    “No!”he shouted at me
    I cringed back, and, abruptly, Ian crumpled forward, falling to his knees, falling into meHe
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    hard, and loud, desperate sobs were breaking gucci watches ladies out of his chest
    “No, Ian, no,” I beggedThis was so much worse than his anger
    I was crying, too, shaking, too, though that might have been him shaking me
    “I have to, I have to,” I sobbed
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    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    9:56 pm
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    "Why?" Brown listened with a numb stricken anticipation
    "It's because you were too fuggin yellow to keep up with the patrolA sergeant taking a litter detail, Jesus
    Brown heard him almost with satisfactionThis was the worst thing he could imagine, it was the moment he rolex ladies watches had been dreading for so long, and it did not seem so horrible"Stanley, you're just as yellow as I am, we're in the same goddam boat He searched for something with which to hurt him, and came up with it"You're worrying too much about your wife, Stanley But it had caught himIn his weakness he was convinced now that his wife was unfaithful, and he passed through a cruel bag dolce gabbana montage of her infidelities in an interval of a few secondsIt loosed a whole web of insecurities, and he felt like weepingIt was unfair that he should be left so much alone
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    They all got up very slowly, fastened their belts, knelt beside the litter and started forward againAfter they had gone a hundred yards, Stanley knew he was not going to continueHe had always resented Wilson mildly because Wilson had more combat than he, but now he did not think of Wilson at allHe just knew that he was going to quit; he had gone gold gucci through too much, and what did it count for?
    They set Wilson down for a short rest and Stanley reeled away and then fell to the groundHe closed his eyes deliberately, pretending he had faintedThe others gathered about him, looked at him without feeling
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    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    6:51 pm
    @@@@@ "She did agree a month ago And gave a
    @@@@@
    "She did agree a month ago
    And gave a month's notice, like any responsible person has to do
    She'll be here on October first, that's Thursday nextI've offered
    her the use of my house
    "Oh, have you? I thought she was supposed to housekeep meWhy
    doesn't she stay here?"
    "Because, Scarlett darling, your house is the only building in
    Ballyhara that hasn't been repaired Scarlett looked around her
    kitchen-workroom in surpriseShe had never paid any attention
    before
    to how it looked; it was only temporary, a convenient spot for
    watching
    the work on the town"It is disgusting, isn't it?" she said"We'd
    best get the house done fast so I can move She smiled, but with
    difficulty"The truth is, Colum, I'm nearly worn outI'll be glad
    to be done with the work so I can rest some What Scarlett didn't say
    was that the work had become just that-work-after the cousins said
    they
    wouldn't moveIt had taken the joy out of rebuilding the O'Hara lands
    when the O'Haras wouldn't be enjoying themShe'd tried and tried to
    figure out why they'd turned her downThe only answer that made
    sense
    to her was that they didn't want to be too close to her, that they
    didn't really love her, despite all their kindnesses and warmthShe
    felt alone now, even when she was with them, even when she was
    with
    ColumShe'd believed he was her friend, but he'd told her they'd
    never comeHe knew them, was one of themHer back hurt all the
    time
    nowHer legs, too, and her feet and ankles were so swollen that
    walking was agonyShe wished she wasn't having the babyIt was
    making her ill, and it had given her the idea of buying Ballyhara in
    the first placeAnd she had six-no, six and a half-more weeks of
    th
    Friday, December 17th, 2010
    6:51 pm
    @@@@@ But when I saw her face on the news, I was
    @@@@@
    But when I saw her face on the news, I was so sure
    It was just a normal raid, one of a thousandAs usual when we felt isolated enough, safe
    enough, we had the TV on as we cleaned out the pantry and fridgeJust to get the weather
    forecast; there isn't much entertainment in the dead-boring everything-is-perfect reports that
    pass for news among the parasitesIt was the hair that caught my eye–the flash of deep, almost
    pink red that I'd only ever seen on one person
    I can still see the look on her face as she peeked at the camera from the corner of one eyeThe
    look that said,I'm trying to be invisible; don't see meShe walked not quite slowly enough,
    working too hard at keeping a casual paceTrying desperately to blend in
    No body snatcher would feel that need
    What is Sharon doing walking around human in a huge city like Chicago? Are there others?
    Trying to find her doesn't even seem like a choice, reallyIf there is a chance there are more
    humans out there, we have to locate them
    And I have to go aloneSharon will run from anyone but me–well, she will run from me, too,
    but maybe she will pause long enough for me to explainI am sure I know her secret place
    “And you?” I ask him in a thick voiceI'm not sure I can physically bear this looming goodbye
    “Will you be safe?”
    “Neither heaven nor hell can keep me apart from you, Melanie
    Without giving me a chance to catch my breath or wipe away the fresh tears, she threw another
    at me
    Jamie curls up under my arm–he doesn't fit the way he used toHe has to fold in on himself, his
    long, gangly limbs poking out in sharp anglesHis arms are starting to turn hard and sinewy, but
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    show this fear if he were hereJamie wants to be brave, to be like Jare
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    Back in the apartment, she'd started to cook some
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    the very sight of it when it started to thicken
    893
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    light of my phone call? Was she deaf? Surely I
    wasn't the only one who could hear this confusion
    in Ilse's voice, this wearinessBut maybe she
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    "That's another funny thing," she saidI had a
    sense of her trying to be coherent, the way a
    drunk pulled over by a traffic cop will try to
    sound sober"I meant to get it framed, but I
    didn't get around to it, so I tacked it on the
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    "Are you going to sleep? Don't go to sleep on me,
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    "Daddy!" Sounding shockedBut also fully awake
    again
    "What happened to the picture? What was different
    about it when you came back?"
    "It was in the bed'oomI guess I must have moved
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    Friday, December 10th, 2010
    6:58 pm
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    A few steps farther brought them out at the bottom of the very
    walk they had been talking of; and standing back, well shaded and
    sheltered, and looking over a ha-ha into the park, was a comfortable-
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    amusement for you if you are to be knocked upEvery sort of exercise
    fatigues her so soon, Miss Crawford, except riding
    “How abominable in you, then, to let me engross her horse as I
    did all last week! I am ashamed of you and of myself, but it shall
    never happen again
    “Your attentiveness and consideration makes me more sensible of
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    “That she should be tired now, however, gives me no surprise; for
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    “I shall soon be rested,” said Fanny; “to sit in the shade on a fine
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    After sitting a little while Miss Crawford was up again“I must
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    Edmund left the seat likewise
    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
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