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Me, too, I said. Feeling quite a bit like a fooi--THERE'S NO VILLAGE IDIOT HERE, WE ALLTA: Tt3Veas--I ended my wave in a kind of half-assed salute and headedback the way I'd come. It smelled ofthe fragrant pine from which it had been constructed. Don't be shy.

I juggled it, heart beatinghard, half-expecting that creepy sobbing to begin again, half-expectingthe shroud-thing to come floating out o Mac was so flustered he noticed just in time that the Syrian was giving him a hundred dol ars mex and that the note was made out in American dol ars. Daughter went into her room and burrowed face down into the bed that hadn't been made up. Hey, Mattie, pick one.