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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    10:19 pm
    @@@@@Why should he care that I'm chancing
    @@@@@Why should he care that I'm chancing whatever's left of
    my reputation by coming here without a chaperone? He doesn't care
    anything about himself-any fool could see that-why should he care
    anything about me? I can't sit down and make polite conversation, I
    can't stand it"Thank you, Ashley," she said, and sat
    on the chair he was holdingShe would force herself to stay for
    fifteen minutes and make empty, lively remarks about the weather,
    tell
    amusing stories about what a good time she'd had at TaraShe
    couldn't
    tell him about Mammy, it would upset him too muchTony coming
    home,
    though, that was differentScarlett started to
    speak"I've been down to Tara-"
    "Why did you stop me, Scarlett?"
    said AshleyHis voice was flat, lifeless, devoid of real
    questioning
    Scarlett couldn't think what to say
    "Why did you stop me?" he asked again, and this time there was
    emotion
    in the words, anger, betrayal, pain"I wanted to be in the grave
    Any grave, not just Melanie'sIt's the only thing I'm fit for No,
    don't say whatever you were going to say, Scarlett
    I've been comforted and boosted up by so many well-meaning people
    that
    I've heard it all a hundred times overI expect better of you than
    the usual platitudesI'll be grateful if you'll say what you must be
    thinking, that I'm letting the lumber business dieYour lumber
    business that you invested all your heart inI'm a miserable failure,
    ScarlettThe whole world knows itWhy do
    we all have to act as though it isn't so?
    Blame me, why don't you?You can't possibly find any words harsher
    than
    those I say to myself, you can't 'hurt my feelings God, how I hate
    that phrase! As if I had any feelings left to hurtAs if I could
    feel anything at all Ashley shook his head with slow, heavy swings
    from side to sideHe was like a mortally wounded animal brought
    down
    by a pack of preda
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    10:19 pm
    @@@@@But right now I have to speak to the lord of
    @@@@@But right now I have to speak to the lord of the GatesIs he
    there?”
    “I suppose he is, I don’t really knowHe doesn’t speak to me very much anymore
    “Things are not well, my dear?”
    “I’d love to talk to you, BrendanHe’s got a problem, a problem I never knew about
    “I suspect he has, Edie, and of course we’ll talkBut at the moment I have to speak with him
    “I’ll call him on the intercom
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    202
    “Don’t tell him it’s me, EdithTell him it’s a man named Blackburne from the island of
    Montserrat in the Caribbean
    “What?”
    “Do as I say, dear EdieIt’s for his sake as well as yours—perhaps more for you, if truth were
    told
    “He’s sick, BrendanLet’s try to make him wellGet him on the line for me
    “I’ll put you on hold
    The silence was interminable, the two minutes more like two hours until the graveled voice of
    Randolph Gates exploded on the line“Who are you?” whispered the celebrated attorney
    “Relax, Randy, it’s BrendanEdith didn’t recognize my voice, but I sure remembered hers
    You’re one lucky fellow
    “What do you want? What’s this about Montserrat?”
    “Well, I just came back from there—”
    “You what?”
    “I decided I needed a vacation!” Gates’s whisper was now essentially a cry of panic
    “Oh, but I did, and because I did your whole life is going to changeYou see, I ran into the
    woman and her two children that you were so interested in, remember them? It’s quite a story and I
    want to tell it to you in all its fascinating det
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    10:22 pm
    @@@@@Her survival skills were better, but she
    @@@@@Her
    survival skills were better, but she was flying
    home from France yet again, and that told me
    somethingI'd go, I'd make nice, and I
    would be sure to pack Reba, just in case one of my
    rages swept over meThey were abating, but of
    course on Duma Key there was really nothing to
    rage against except for my periodic forgetfulness
    and shitty limpI called the charter service I'd
    used for the last fifteen years and confirmed a
    Learjet, Sarasota to MSP International, leaving at
    nine o'clock AM on the twenty-fourth of December
    I called Jack, who said he'd be happy to drive me
    to Dolphin Aviation and pick me up again on the
    118
    twenty-eighthAnd then, just when I had all of my
    ducks in a row, Pam called to tell me the whole
    thing was off
    vi
    Pam's father was a retired MarineHe and his wife
    had relocated to Palm Desert, California, in the
    last year of the twentieth century, settling in
    one of those gated communities where there's one
    token African-American couple and four token
    Jewish couplesChildren and vegetarians are not
    allowedResidents must vote Republican and own
    small dogs with rhinestone collars, stupid eyes,
    and names that end in iTaffi is good, Cassi is
    better, and something like Rififi is the total
    shitPam's father had been diagnosed with rectal
    cancerIt didn't surprise mePut a bunch of
    white assholes together and you're going to find
    that going around
    I did not say this to my wife, who started off
    strong and then broke down in tears"He's started
    the chemo, but Momma says it might already have
    metasoh, whatever that fucking word
    119
    is, I sound like you!" And then, still sniffing
    but sounding shocked and humbled: "I'm sorry,
    Eddie, that was terrible
    "No, it wasn't," I said"It wasn't terrible at
    allAnd the word is metastasizedAnyway, they're doing the surgery
    to take out the main tumor tonight She was
    starting to cry again"I can't believe this is
    happening to my Dad
    "Take it easy," I said"They do miracles these
    days
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    10:23 pm
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    I won't erase you, MelanieI'm sorry I can't give you more than that
    “What's she saying?”
    “We're just… making up
    “Why couldn't she talk before, when you were trying to let her?”
    “I don't know, JaredThere really isn't enough room for both of usI can't seem to get myself
    out of the way balenciaga city completelyIt's like… not like holding your breathLike trying to pause your
    heartbeatsI can't make myself not exist
    He didn't answer, and my chest throbbed with painHow joyful he would be if Icould figure
    out how to erase myself!
    Melanie wanted to… not to contradict me, but to make me fake prada feel better; she struggled to find
    words to soften my agonyShe couldn't come up with the right ones
    But Ian would be devastatedYou have so many friends here
    I was glad that we were back to our room nowI needed to think about something else before I
    started cryingNow wasn't the time for new cartier self-pityThere were more important issues at hand than
    my heart, breaking yet again
    CHAPTER 43
    Frenzied
    Iimagined that from the outside, I looked as still as a statueMy hands were folded in front of
    me, my face was without expression, my breathing was too shallow to move my chest
    Inside, cartier santos 100 I was spinning apart, as if the pieces of my atoms were reversing polarity and blowing
    away from one another
    Bringing Melanie back had not saved himAll that I could do was not enough
    The hall outside our room was crowdedJared, Kyle, and Ian were back from their desperate
    raid, black chanel tote empty-hand
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    10:14 pm
    @@@@@His face was small and ugly, pocked with the
    @@@@@His face was small and ugly, pocked with the scars of a severe acne which had left his skin lumpy, spotted with swatches of purple-redPerhaps it was the color of his face, or it might have been the shape of his long Irish nose, which slanted resentfully to one side, but he always looked wrothYet he was only twenty-four

    In South Boston and Dorchester and Roxbury the gray wooden houses parade for miles in a file of drabness and desolation and wasteThe streetcars jangle through a wilderness of cobblestone and sapless wood; the brick is old and powders under your fingertips if you rub it vigorouslyAll colors are lost in the predominating gray; the faces of the people have assumed it at lastThere are no Jews or Italians or Irish -- their features have blurred in an anonymous mortar which has rendered them homogeneous and dustyIt is in their speechThey all talk with the same depressing harsh arid tongue"If I had a caah, I'd show it some caaer, I mean some caaer, I wouldn't paaark it just anywhaah
    It was founded by burghers and is ruled by bourgeois; everything flows on glabrous surfaces, everything is fine in Boston to read the newspapers, which are all the same, everything is okay in politics because the political parties are the sameEverybody belongs to the middle class, everybody down to the bums who drowse and retch on the subway that goes to Maverick Square in East Boston at two ASomewhere they must have protested against going into the mortar but it is all lost now
    There is a deadening regularity and a sullen vicious temper that rides underneath the surface, the glabrous surface of the Boston Herald and Post and Traveler and Daily Record and Boston-American, it erupts in the drunks who splatter the subways more completely than the drunks of any other city, it skitters around Scollay Square, where lust is always sordid and Sodom copulates in garbageIt even moves in the traffic, which is snarled and sullen and frenetic, and it rides the brow when the kids are beaten up in the alleyways, and the synagogues and cemeteries are fouled with language and symbol, "The fuggin kikes" and the cross or swastika"I am distressed to hear of it," says Governor Curley, Saltonstall, Tobin

    The kids have gang fights with stones and sticks and knuckle-bands; in the winter the snowballs are packed with rocksIt is of course harmless, a mere tapping of the healthycompetitiveinstinct
    Hey, Gallagheh, Lefty Finkelstein's gang is gonna fight us
    Sonsofbitches, let's get them(Fear is something alien to the gang, stored far down in his stomach I been layin' for him
    Get Packy and Al and Fingers, we're gonna clean up the Yids
    What time we staat?
    What the fug you caaeh? Ya yella?
    Who's yellaI'm gonna get me my bat
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    10:14 pm
    @@@@@What had she done? Walked right into the
    @@@@@What had she done?
    Walked right into the arms of the enemyShe knew what military
    government meant: the helplessness and the rage, the constant fear
    that
    they'd confiscate your house or put you in jail or shoot you if you
    broke one of their lawsMilitary government was all-powerfulShe
    had lived under its capricious rule for five harsh yearsHow could
    she have been such a fool as to stumble back into it again? "They do
    have a pleasant band," said Pauline"Come along, Scarlett, we cross
    hereThe Butler house is the one with the fresh paint
    "Lucky Eleanor," said Eulalie, "to have such a devoted sonRhett
    positively worships his mother Scarlett stared at the houseNot a
    house, a mansionShining white columns soared a hundred feet to
    support the roof overhang above the deep porches along the side of
    the
    tall, imposing brick houseScarlett's knees felt weakShe couldn't
    go in, she couldn'tShe'd never seen any place as grand, as
    impressiveHow would she ever find anything to say to the woman
    who
    lived in such magnificence? Who could destroy all her hopes with one
    word to RhettPauline had her by the arm, hurrying her across the
    streetith a banjo on my knee,'" she was singing in a low
    off-key murmurScarlett allowed herself to be led like a
    sleepwalker
    In time, she found herself standing inside a door, looking at a tall
    elegant woman with shining white hair crowning a lined lovely face
    "Dear Eleanor," said Eulalie"You've brought Scarlett," said Mrs"My dear child," she said to Scarlett, "you look so pale
    She put her hands lightly on Scarlett's shoulders and bent to kiss her
    cheekScarlett closed her
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    10:18 pm
    @@@@@ “Where?” “In my truckIt’s a red semi with
    @@@@@
    “Where?”
    “In my truckIt’s a red semi with white stripes, like the flagIt’s parked out front, on the right
    Get around the cab and stay out of sight
    “She’ll see me leaveI’m goin’ over and give her a big surpriseI’ll tell her all the CBs are hummin’
    and the Bronk is headin’ south to the Carolinas—at least that’s what I heard
    “How can I ever repay you?”
    “Probably with some of that money you keep talkin’ aboutThe Bronk’s
    an animal and I’m a born-again Christian The short trucker swung back the door, nearly shoving
    Panov back into the wall againMo watched as his conspiratorial colleague approached the booth,
    his conspiratorial arms extended as the trucker embraced an old friend and started talking rapidly;
    the woman’s eyes were attentive—she was mesmerizedPanov rushed out of the men’s room,
    through the diner’s entrance and toward the huge red-and-white-striped truckHe crouched
    breathlessly behind the cab, his chest pounding, and waited
    Suddenly, the Bronk’s wife came racing out of the diner, her platinum hair rising grotesquely in
    the air behind her as she ran to her bright red automobileShe climbed inside and in seconds the
    engine roared; she continued north as Mo watched, astonished
    “How are y’doing, buddy—wherever the hell you are?” shouted the short man with no name
    who had not only amazingly stopped a nosebleed but had rescued him from a manic wife whose
    paranoid mood swings were rooted in equal parts of vengeance and guilt
    Stop it, asshole, cried Panov to himself as he raised his voicebuddy!”
    Thirty-five minutes later they reached the outskirts of an unidentified town and the trucker
    stopped in front of a cluster of stores that bordered the highway“You’ll find a phone there, buddy
    “Are you sure?” asked Mo“About the money, I mean
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    233
    “Sure I’m sure,” replied the short man behind the wheel“Two hundred dollars is fine—maybe
    even what I earned—but more than that corrupts, don’t it? I been offered fifty times that to haul
    stuff I won’t haul, and you know what I tell ’em?”
    “What do you tell them?”
    “I tell ’em to go piss into the wind with their poisonIt’s gonna flash back and blind ’em
    “You’re a good person,” said Panov, climbing out onto the pave
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    10:23 pm
    @@@@@ He stood up, put his hands in the small of
    @@@@@ He stood up, put his hands in
    the small of his back, and twisted it"Would you
    like to come up to the house and meet the boss?
    She should be arising from her nap just about now
    She has her problems, but even at eighty-five
    she's quite the babe
    This wasn't the time to tell him I thought I
    already had met her - briefly - courtesy of my
    answering machineWhen the hilarity
    subsides"Walk down tomorrow afternoon, if you
    like I held out my hand
    againHe shook it again, looking at the stump of
    my right arm as he did so
    "No prosthesis? Or do you just leave it off when
    you're not among the hoi polloi?"
    I had a story I told people about that - nervepain
    in the stump - but it was a lie, and I didn't
    want to lie to WiremanPartly because he had a
    nose attuned to the delicate smell of bullshit,
    but mostly because I just didn't want to lie to
    him
    231
    "I was measured for one while I was still in the
    hospital, of course, and I got the hard sell on it
    from just about everyone - especially my physical
    therapist and this psychologist friend of mine
    They said the quicker I learned to use it, the
    quicker I'd be able to get on with my life-"
    "Just put the whole thing behind you and go on
    dancing-"
    "Yes
    "Only sometimes putting a thing behind you isn't
    so easy to do
    "Sometimes it's not even right," Wireman said
    "That isn't it, exactly, but it's I trailed
    off and seesawed my hand in the air
    "Close enough for rock and roll?"
    "Yes," I said"Thanks for the cold drink
    "Come on back and get another oneI only take the
    sun between two and three - an hour a day is
    enough for me - but Miss Eastlake either sleeps or
    rearranges her china figurines most of the
    afternoon, and of course she never misses Oprah,
    so I have timeMore than I know what to do with,
    232
    actuallyWho knows? We might find a lot to talk
    about
    "All right," I saidHe offered
    his hand and I shook with him again"You know
    what I think? Friendships founded on laughter are
    always fortuito
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    10:23 pm
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    I held it up to lookA faint pink line was visible under the shiny gelThe blood was still wet on
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    “Here's some water,” the older woman said as she came through the door
    “Thank you, Cerulean
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    I pulled myself upI hadn't felt so healthy in a long timeThe sharp shift
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    10:14 pm
    @@@@@Maybe I should do something with my botany
    @@@@@Maybe I should do something with my botany yet, it's only twelve years since I had it, I could refresh my memory and there'll be better jobs now in thatIt's a fascinating subject
    He dropped the head of the kelpThat's an unusual plant, I wish I could remember more about itAll those marine plants are well worth studying, plankton, green algae, brown algae, red algae, I'm surprised at how much I rememberI'll have to write Dora and ask her if she can find my botany notebooks, maybe I should start studying it again
    He walked back, examining the seaweed and driftwood along the beachAll dead things, he thought, everything lives to dieAlready I can feel it, I'm getting older, thirty-four, I'm probably through half my life already and what do I have to show for it? There's a Yiddish word for it, Goldstein would knowStill I'm not sorry I never learned any Yiddish, it's better to have modern folks the way I did
    Oh, my shoulder aches, why don't they ever leave us alone for a day? In the distance Roth could see the men, and he felt a pinch of anxietyOh, they're all working againThey're all going to be making cracks and what can I tell them, that I was looking at some kelp? They wouldn't understandWhy didn't I think of coming back sooner?
    Wearily, timorously, Roth began to runSicill?" Polack asked MinettaThey were trudging along together through the sandMinetta with a grunt dropped his ration box on a new pile they were starting"No, Veneetz," he said"My grandfather was a big shot, you know, an aristocrat near Venice They turned around to go back to the landing craft"How do you know that stuff?" Minetta asked Polack
    "Aaah, what do ya t'ink?" Polack said"I lived with a bunch of dagoesI know more about 'em than you do
    "No, you don't," Minetta s
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    10:15 pm
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    Two dollars for a cup of coffee!
    Why, with two dollars you could buy the best pair of boots on King
    Street"I always enjoy it, Sukie, even though I have to do without
    food on the table to pay for itDon't you ever feel ashamed of
    yourself for being such a robber?" Sukie's white teeth flashed against
    her brown skin"No ma'am, I surely don't!" she said, rumbling louis vuitton logo with
    amusement"I can swear on the Good Book that ain't nothing
    disturbing
    my sleep The other coffee drinkers laughed
    Each of them had had a similar exchange with Sukie many times
    Eleanor Butler looked around until she located Celie and her basket
    "Come along, dear," she said to Scarlett, "we have a long list today
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    MrsButler to the end of the Market hall where the rows of tables
    were crowded with dented galvanized washtubs filled with seafood that
    emitted a strong acrid odorScarlett's nose wrinkled at the reek, and
    she looked at the tubs with disdain
    She thought she knew fish well enoughUgly, whiskered, bone-filled
    catfish were plentiful in the river that ran alongside TaraThey'd
    had to Gucci Clutches eat them when there was nothing elseWhy anyone would
    actually
    buy one of the nasty little things was beyond her, but there were lots
    of ladies with one glove off poking into the tubs
    Oh, bother! Miss Eleanor was going to introduce her to every single
    one of themScarlett readied her smileA tiny white-haired lady
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    "I'd love to meet her, EleanorWhat do you think of this flounder?
    I was planning on sheepshead, but they're not in yet, and I can't
    wait
    I don't know why the fishing boats can't be more punctual, and don't
    talk to me about no wind for the sailsMy bonnet nearly blew right
    off my head this morning
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    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    10:27 pm
    @@@@@“But my injuries are not essential to
    @@@@@“But my injuries are not essential to this
    meetingYou will work with us, Domie?”
    “I’ll work with you, KruppieMy God, will I work with you! I ask only that Jason Bourne
    clarifies his offer to meWith Carlos I’m a caged animal, but without him I’m a near-destitute
    aging courtesanI want him to pay for my sister’s death and for everything he’s done to me, but I
    don’t care to sleep in the gutter
    “Name your price,” said Jason
    “Write it down,” clarified Conklin, glancing at Krupkin“Let me see,” said Lavier, walking
    around the sofa and crossing to the Leconte desk“I’m within a few years of sixty—from one
    direction or another, it’s immaterial—and without the Jackal, and the absence of some other fatal
    disease, I will have perhaps fifteen to twenty years She bent down over the desk and wrote a
    figure on a notepad, tore it off, then stood up and looked at the tall American
    Bourne, and I’d rather not argue
    Jason took the paper and read the amount: $1,000,000“It’s fair,” said Bourne,
    handing the note back to Lavier“Add how and where you want it paid and I’ll make the
    arrangements when we leave hereThe money will be there in the morning
    The aging courtesan looked into Bourne’s eyes“I believe you,” she said, again bending over the
    desk and writing out her instructionsShe rose and gave the paper back to Jason“The deal is made,
    monsieur, and may God grant us the killIf he does not, we are dead
    “You’re speaking as a Magdalen sister?”
    “I’m speaking as a sister who’s terrified, no more and certainly no less“I’ve several questions,” he said“Do you want to sit down?”
    “Oui Lavier crossed to the sofa and, sinking into the cushions, reached for her
    purse on the red tableShe took out a pack of cigarettes, extracted one and picked up a gold lighter
    from the coffee ta
    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    10:24 pm
    @@@@@ She lifted his hands to her face
    @@@@@ She lifted his hands to her face and
    kissed them
    "I love you, too, Miss Eastlake," he saidIs it Edgar?"
    "What do you think, Elizabeth?"
    "Yes, of course it isYou're to have a show? Is
    that how we left things before my last She
    drooped her eyelids, as if to mime sleep
    "Yes, at the Scoto GalleryYou really need to
    rest
    "Is it soon? Your show?"
    "In less than a week
    674
    "Your paintingsare they
    on the mainland? At the gallery?"
    Wireman and I exchanged a lookEverything
    else can waituntil after you have your show
    Your moment in the sunAre you selling them? The
    ship pictures?"
    Wireman and I exchanged another look, and the
    message in his eyes was very clear: Don't upset
    her
    "They're marked NFS, ElizabethThat means-"
    "I know what it means, Edgar, I didn't fall out of
    an orange tree yesterday Inside their deep
    pockets of wrinkles, caught in a face that was
    receding toward death, her eyes flashedHowever many there are, you must sell them
    And however hard it is for youBreak them up,
    send them to the four windsDo you understand
    me?"
    "Yes
    "Will you do it?"
    I didn't know if I would or not, but I recognized
    her signs of growing agitation from my own not-so675
    distant past At that point, I would have
    promised her to jump to the moon in seven-league
    boots, if it would have eased her mind
    "Even then they may not be safe," she mused in an
    almost-horrified voice
    "Stop, now," I said, and patted her
    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    10:22 pm
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    quite of a piece with your general conduct; and I entirely agree with
    you in the main as to the propriety of doing everything one could
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    expense to anybodyA niece of ours, Sir Thomas, I may say, or at
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    many advantagesI don’t say she would be so handsome as her cousins
    I dare say she would not; but she would be introduced into the
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    7
    Jane Austen
    the way of a plan which would be so consistent with the relative
    situations of eachI only meant to observe that it ought not to be
    lightly engaged in, and that to make it really serviceable to Mrs
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    “I thoroughly understand you,” cried MrsNorris, “you are everything
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    Friday, December 17th, 2010
    10:22 pm
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    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
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    handsShe spit something she was holding in her mouth onto the
    floor, then blew into the baby's mouth, once, twice, thrice
    The baby's arms jerked, then its legsColum whispered the Hail
    Mary
    A whisk of the knife cut the cord, the baby was laid on the folded
    sheets and the woman was back beside Scarlett"Hold the lamps
    closer," she
    Friday, December 10th, 2010
    10:33 pm
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    His warm, callused fingers tug my chin upMy heart throbs when our eyes meet
    “Mel, I…” His face, for once, has no smile
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    After a moment, his head turns; he's the one looking away now, still keeping his grip on my
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    He sighs, and I want to disappearGive up–lose my mind to the invaders if that's what it takes
    to erase this huge blunderTrade the future to blot out the last two minutes of the past
    Jared takes a deep breathHe squints at the floor, his eyes and jaw tight“Mel, it doesn't have
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    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
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    "That it is," Wireman agreed, watching the
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    better than a twelve-foot cistern thumbed into a
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    Monday, December 6th, 2010
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    With such thoughts as these, among ten hundred others, Fanny
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    intent on telling the news than giving them any help, immediately
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    began with, “The Thrush is gone out of harbour, please sir, and one
    of the officers has been here to—” She was interrupted by a fine tall
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    never be ready in time; for she may have her orders to-morrow,
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    perhapsIt takes me quite unawaresAnd now you must be off for
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    Saturday, December 4th, 2010
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