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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    2:22 am
    @@@@@You'd think we weren't men But immediately
    @@@@@You'd think we weren't men
    But immediately afterward he knew that his anger also stemmed from fearFive years ago I woulda told that doctor offIt was one of the old jokers, and it was even worse in the ArmyA man had to take crap even if it was just by keeping his mouth shutYou don't last a month if you do everything you want, he told himselfAnd yet nothing was worth doing if you let yourself be pushed aroundThere was no way to figure that one out
    He was startled by Wilson's voice"C'mon, Red, let's go They began to walk together
    Wilson was silent, and his broad high forehead was puckered in a frown"Red, Ah wish we hadn't gone on that sick call
    "Ah gotta have an op-per-ration
    "You going to the hospital?"
    Wilson shook his head"Naw, that doc said it can wait till the campaign's over
    "What's the matter with ya?"
    "Damn if Ah know," Wilson said"That guy in there said Ah'm all shot to hell inside He whistled for a moment, and then added, "Mah old man died from an op-per-ration an' Ah don' like none of it
    "Aaah," Red said, "it ain't too bad, or they'd be doin' it now
    "Ah jus' cain't figger it out, RedYou know Ah had a dose five times and Ah cured it every single timeBuddy of mine told me about this thing, it's called pirdon or pridion or somepin like that, and Ah jus' took it, an' it fixed me up fine, but that doc says it didn't'
    "He don' know what the score is
    "Aw, he's a sonofabitch, all right, but the thing is, Red, Ah'm all shot to hell ins
    2:14 am
    @@@@@It was really something special"I don't
    @@@@@It was really something special"I don't know," he muttered"Lots of people feel like that, and then for some reason they bust up, or they go sour on each other
    "We wouldn't have busted up, RedI'm telling ya, she loved me He thought about this, and his face became tenseHe wrapped his blanket around him and then said, "She couldn't have been lying, Red, she's not that kind of girl He was silent, and then blurted out suddenly, "You don't think she coulda been lying to me, do ya?"
    "Naw, she wasn't," Red said"Naw, she didn't lie, but people change, you know
    "Not her," Wyman said"It was different with us His voice expressed the frustration he felt at being unable to put his feeling into words
    Red thought of the mother Wyman would have to support if he married his girl, and he had a quick elliptic knowledge of everything that would contain- -- the arguments, the worries over money, the grinding extinction of their youth until they would look like the people who walked by them in the park -- it was all clear to RedIt would not be this girl for Wyman but it would be some other, and it did not matter because both girls would look the same in thirty years and Wyman would never amount to very muchHe saw a future vista of Wyman's life, and rebelledHe wanted to be able to tell Wyman something more comforting than the fact that it didn't matterBut he could think of nothing, and he settled back in his blankets"Aaah, you better try to sleep it off, kid," he said
    "Yeah, okay," Wyman murmured
    Like a relapsing fever, Red had again the familiar ache of age and sadness and wisdom

    Croft and Martinez had not received any mail either; they never got any
    Ridges was given a letter from his fatherIt was written laboriously on coarse ruled paper into which the pencil lines had cut deeplyRidges gave it to Goldstein to read for him
    It went: Dere Son, we one and al of us miss you, the crop was harvest, and we made som little money, enuff to kepe us, Thank the
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    2:22 am
    @@@@@"There's the Reine des Fleurs "And a Rubra
    @@@@@"There's the Reine des Fleurs
    "And a Rubra Plena!" The thin elderly widow cupped her pale hands to
    hold the vibrant red blossom"I used to keep mine in a crystal vase
    on the pianoforte Anne's eyes blinked rapidly"So did we, Miss
    Harriet, and the Alba Plenas on the tea table
    "My Alba Plena isn't as healthy as I'd hoped," Rhett said"The buds
    are all kind of stunted The widow and Anne both laughed"You
    won't
    see any flowers until January, MrButler," Anne explained"The
    Alba's a late bloomer Rhett's mouth twisted in a rueful smile"So
    am I, it seems, where gardening is concerned My grief! thought
    Scarlett
    Next thing I reckon they'll start chatting about is whether cow patties
    are better than horse droppings for fertilizerWhat kind of sissyness
    is that for a man like Rhett to say! She turned her back on them and
    sat in a chair close to the settee where Eleanor Butler was doing her
    tatting"This piece is almost long enough to trim the neck of your
    claret gown when it needs freshening," she said to Scarlett with a
    smile"Halfway through the Season it's always nice to have a
    change
    I'll be finished with it by then
    "Oh, Miss Eleanor, you're always so sweet and thoughtfulI feel my
    bad mood going right awayHonestly, I marvel at you being such
    good
    friends with my Aunt EulalieShe's not like you at allShe's
    forever sniffling and complaining and squabbling with Aunt Pauline
    Eleanor dropped her ivory tatting shutt
    2:14 am
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    was
    a child, Mammy had described heaven to her as a land of clouds like
    big
    feather mattresses where angels rested, amusing themselves by
    looking
    down at the goings-on below through cracks in the skyEver since her
    mother died, Scarlett had had an uncomfortable childish conviction
    that
    Ellen was watching her with unhappy concernI'll Cartier Watches Tortue make it all better
    now, she promised her motherEleanor's affectionate welcome had,
    for
    the moment, erased all the fears and memories that filled her heart
    and
    mind when she saw the Yankee soldiersIt had even wiped out
    Scarlett's unacknowledged anxiety about her decision to follow Rhett
    to
    CharlestonShe felt safe and loved and invincibleShe could do
    anything, everythingShe would win Rhett's love
    again
    She would be gucci twirl watch the lady Ellen always meant for her to beShe would be
    admired and respected and adored by everyoneAnd she would
    never,
    ever, be lonely againWhen Pauline closed the last tiny, ivory-inlaid
    drawer of the rosewood desk and Eulalie hurriedly swallowed the last
    slice of cake, Eleanor Butler stood, pulling Scarlett up with her"I
    have to pick up my boots from the cobbler this morning," she said, "so
    I'll take Scarlett omega seamaster gold along and introduce her to King StreetNo woman
    can possibly feel at home until she knows where the shops areWill
    youall join us?" To Scarlett's immense relief, her aunts declinedButler all to herselfThe walk to Charleston's shops
    was pure pleasure in the warm bright winter sunlightKing Street was
    a revelation and a delightStores lined it for block after block; dry
    goods, hardware, boots, tobacco and cigars, hats, hermes replica jewelry, china,
    seeds, medicines, wines, books, gloves, candies-it seemed that
    everything and anything could be bought on King StreetThere were
    crowds of shoppers, too, and dozens of smart buggies and open
    carriages, with liveried drivers and fashionably dressed occupants
    Charleston was nowhere near as dreary as she had remembered it and
    feared it to beIt was much bigger and busier than AtlantaAnd no
    sign of the Panic at cheap rolex
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    2:22 am
    @@@@@Krupkin, Alex and Bourne sat in the back,
    @@@@@Krupkin, Alex
    and Bourne sat in the back, Conklin again in the jump seat, his size and disabled leg making the
    position more feasibleConversation was at a minimum as the three men anxiously kept glancing
    over at the glass doors of the apartment
    “Are you sure this is going to work?” asked Jason
    “I am only sure that Sergei is an immensely talented professional,” replied Krupkin“He was
    trained in Novgorod, you know, and his French is impeccableHe also carries on him a variety of
    identifications that would fool the Division of Documents at the Deuxième Bureau
    “What about the other two?” pressed Bourne
    “Silent subordinates, controlled by and subservient to their superiorThey’re also experts at their
    craftHere he comes!”
    Sergei could be seen walking out of the glass doors; he turned left, and within moments crossed
    the wide boulevard toward the Citro?nHe reached the car, went around the hood and climbed in
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    333
    behind the wheel“Everything is in order,” he said, angling his head over the front seat“Madame
    has not returned and the flat is number twenty-one, second floor, right front sideIt has been swept
    thoroughly; there are no intercepts
    “Are you certain?” asked Conklin“There’s no room for error here, Sergei
    “Our instruments are the best, sir,” answered the KGB aide, smiling“It pains me to say it, but
    they were developed by the General Electronics Corporation under contract to Langley
    “Two points for our side,” said Alex
    “Minus twelve for permitting the technology to be stolen,” concluded Krupkin“Besides, I’m
    sure a number of years ago our Madame Lavier might have had bugs sewn into her mattress—”
    “Checked,” broke in Sergei
    “Thank you, but my point is that the Jackal could hardly have monitoring personnel all over
    ParisIt all gets so complicated
    “Where are your other two men?” asked Bourne
    “In the lobby corridors, s
    2:14 am
    @@@@@Enough! Santos! The Jackal! His watch read
    @@@@@Enough! Santos! The Jackal!
    His watch read one o’clock, and the two messengers from the Pont-Royal walked out of the
    alley and across the street to the gates of the old refinery
    “Santos will see you now,” said the voluble one
    “You are to come with usHe does not leave Le Coeur du Soldat
    “Why do I find that not to my liking?”
    “There’s no reason for such feelingsHe has peace in his heart
    “What about his knife?”
    “He has no knife, no weaponHe never carries either
    “That’s nice to hear
    “He has no need for such weapons,” added the messenger, disquietingly
    He was escorted down the alley, past the neon-lit entrance, to a barely negotiable break in the
    buildingsOne by one, Jason between the two, men, they made their way to the rear of the café,
    where there was just about the last thing Bourne expected to see in this run-down section of the
    citywell, an English gardenA plot of ground perhaps thirty feet in length, twenty in
    depth, and trellises supporting a variety of flowering vines, a barrage of color in the French
    moonlight
    “That’s quite a sight,” commented Jason“It didn’t come about through neglect
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    253
    “Ah, it is a passion with Santos! No one understands it, but no one touches a single flower,
    either
    Bourne was led to a small outside elevator whose steel frame was attached to the stone wall of
    the buildingThere was no other access in sightThe conveyance barely held the three of them, and
    once the iron gate was closed, the silent messenger pressed a button in the darkness and spoke“We
    are here, Santos
    “Camellia?” asked Jason
    “He knows everything is all rightIf not, my friend might have said ‘lily’ or ‘rose ”
    “What would happen then?”
    “You don’t want to think about
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    2:22 am
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    there it was, a thing many claimed did not exist:
    the brain of a lawyerIt floated against the Gulf
    I stared at it for awhile, I don't know how long -
    two minutes? four? - fascinated by the way the
    blue water looked when viewed through the chanel top gray
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    to fog
    The slug was a black chip, slightly fragmentedIt
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    467
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    It was also horrifyingIt isn't a word I want to
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    realized something I perhaps should have seen much
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    I was hungry againI made myself a sandwich and
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    with The Hummingbirds - they had become quite the
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    2:14 am
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    Wireman poured himself a fresh glass of tea with a
    hand that was not quite steadyI found that
    interesting and disquietingThen he glanced at
    his watch, which he wore nurse-style, with the
    246
    face on the top chanel inside of his wrist"In half an hour
    or so I really have to go up and check her," he
    said"I'm sure she's fine, but-"
    "What if she wasn't?" I asked"If she fell, or
    something?"
    He pulled a walkie-talkie from the pocket of his
    chinosIt was as slim as a cell phone"I make
    sure she always carries hersThere are also gucci watches ladies Rapid
    Response call-buttons all over the house, but-" He
    tapped a thumb on his chest"I'm the real alarm
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    He looked out at the water and sighed
    "She's got Alzheimer'sIt's not too bad yet, but
    DrHadlock says it'll probably move fast now that
    it's settled in He Gucci Clutches shrugged
    almost sullenly, then brightened"We have tea
    every day at fourWhy not come up
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    247
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    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    2:22 am
    @@@@@There was no hostility toward her, none at
    @@@@@There was no hostility toward her,
    none at all
    “I was a Bear, too, Sunny,” I told her, trying to make her feel just a little more comfortable
    “They called me Lives in the Stars, then
    “Lives in the Stars,” she whispered, her eyes somehow, impossibly, getting wider
    I suppressed a groan“You lived in the second crystal city, I guessI heard the story so many times…”
    “Did you like being a Bear, Sunny?” I asked quicklyI didn't really want to get into my history
    right now“Were you happy there?”
    Her face crumpled at my questions; her eyes locked onto Kyle's face and filled with tears
    “I'm sorry,” I apologized at once, looking to Kyle, too, for an explanation
    I could barely hear her answering whisper
    Her words brought a thick lump to my throat Kyle put his hand on the back of her head and, in a gesture so tender
    it made my eyes smart, held her face against his chest
    Jeb cleared his throat, and Sunny started and cringedIt was easy to imagine the frayed state her
    nerves must be inSouls were not designed to handle violence and terror
    I remembered long ago when Jared had interrogated me; he'd asked if I was like other soulsI
    was not, nor was the other soul they'd dealt with, my SeekerSunny, however, seemed to
    embody the essence of my gentle, timid species; we were powerful only in great numbers
    “Sorry, Sunny,” Jeb said“Didn't mean to scare you, thereMaybe we ought to get out of here,
    though His eyes swept around the cave, where a few people lingered by the exits, gawking at
    usHe stared hard at Reid and Lucina, and they ducked down the corridor toward the kitchen
    “Probably ought to git along to Doc,” Jeb continued with a sigh, giving the frightened little
    woman a wistful glanc
    2:14 am
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    Cerulean had given me a mirror
    I held it up and then tried to stifle my gasp
    My face looked the way I remembered it from San DiegoThe face I'd taken for granted there
    The skin was smooth and peachy across my right birkin bag hermes cheekboneIf I looked carefully, it was just a
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    It was a face that belonged to Wanderer, the soulIt belonged here, in this civilized place where
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    I realized why it was so easy to lie to diamond gucci these gentle creaturesBecause it felt right to talk with
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    “What do you think?” the Healer asked
    “It was my pleasure to heal you
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    thatThough rolex submariner replica the Healer had cleaned the blood from my neck, it was still smudged with purple
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    “I think it's time I called the camping trip quitsI need to clean up,” I murmured
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    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
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    On a visit to her family in Boston, Margaret is questionedYou're not planning any children yet?
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    Oh, it is, I suppose
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    2:14 am
    @@@@@ He turned to one of the landing-craft
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    "Yeah
    "With those Japs I guess you'll stay awake tonight Croft lit a cigarette, and walked over to Minetta again"You'll have to stay here, boy, until the truck comesJus' hold that compress there, and nothin' is gonna happen to ya
    Stanley and Brown lay on their stomachs, talking to each other and looking at the jungleStanley was feeling very weakHe tried to ignore his panic but he kept thinking of how safe they had felt when there had been Japanese so near to themYou never know when you're safe, he muttered to himselfHe felt an intense horror which he repressed with difficultyAll his nerves seemed to have come apartHe felt he would say something absurd in a moment or so, and he turned to Brown and uttered the first thought in his mind, "Wonder how Gallagher took it?"
    "What do ya mean?"
    "You know, the Japs being killed, and him thinking of his wife
    "Aaah," Brown said"He didn't even connect it
    Stanley looked at Gallagher, who was talking quietly to Wilson"He seems to be coming around," Stanley said"I feel sorry for the guy, but I'll tell you what, maybe he's lucky
    "You don't mean that
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    "That's all you ever think about," Stanley mutteredHe hated Brown for a momentBrown's contempt for women stroked the jealousy, the fear that Stanley usually was able to controlFor a moment or two, he was half convinced his wife was cuckolding him, and though he flung off the idea, he sat there troubled and ner
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    2:22 am
    @@@@@It was touch and go whether she'd live or
    @@@@@It was touch and go whether she'd live
    or not
    "Over Grandfather?"
    "He was an incredibly dashing manSo handsome, with that
    wonderful
    straight bearing that soldiers haveAnd a French accent, of course
    When he said 'good morning' he sounded like a hero from an opera
    Dozens of women were in love with himI heard my father say one
    time
    that Pierre Robillard was solely responsible for the roof on the
    Huguenot churchHe'd come up from Savannah once in a while for
    the
    services because they're in FrenchThe church walls would practically
    bulge with a congregation full of women, and the collection plate was
    filled to overflowing Eleanor smiled reminiscently"Come to think
    of it, my Aunt Alice eventually married a professor of French
    Literature at HarvardSo all the language practicing she must have
    done came in handy after all Scarlett refused to let MrsButler be
    sidetracked"Never mind that, tell me more about GrandfatherI asked you about her once, but you just brushed
    it
    off Eleanor shook her head"I don't know how to describe your
    grandmotherShe wasn't like anybody else in the world
    "Was she very beautiful?"
    "Yes-and noThat's the problem with talking about her, she was
    always
    changingThey have a saying, the French,
    that
    no woman can be truly beautiful who is not also sometimes truly ugly
    They're such a subtle people, and so wise, and so impossible for an
    Anglo-Saxon to understand Scarlett couldn't understand what Miss
    Eleanor was trying to say"There's a portrait of her at Tara and she
    looks beautiful," she said stubbornly
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    "And come to our house in the morning at nine-thirtyIt's a half-hour
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    “I’m sure it is, Lou, but I don’t involve myself in those matters
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    “I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t, Lou
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    “Lou, I asked you to temper your language
    “Temper? I’m losing my temperI want to deal!”
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    “Do you know who this third party is—outside of a photograph or a detailed description?”
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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    now we think we do know
    “Only you, however,” broke in the count, “can confirm it for usWhat is the name of this third
    man on your contract? Surely we have a right to know
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    “You are a family man with children and you do this work?”
    “Alex never told you?”
    “If he did so, I passed it off as a cover—one goes along with anything Shaking his head, the
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    “On the contrary, I want to get back to them as soon as chanel handbags sale I canThey’re the only people on earth I
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    “But you are Jason Bourne, the killer Chameleon! The deepest recesses of the criminal world
    tremble at your name!”
    “Oh, come on, that’s a bit much, even from you
    “Not for an instant! You are Bourne, second only to the Jackal—”
    “No!” shouted the suddenly forgotten David Webb“He’s no match for me! I’ll take him! I’ll
    kill him!”
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    could not understand“What do you want me to do?”
    Jason Bourne turned and breathed heavily against the glass window for several moments—and
    then through the mists of indecision the Chameleon’s strategy became clearHe swung around and
    looked across the dark street at the stone building on the right“The police are gone,” he said
    quietly
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    “I was preoccupied, what can I say? I did not notice Bernardine raised his eyebrows in sudden
    recollection“But there were faces at the windows, several faces, I saw them
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    “Very understandablemen with weapons racing aroundBest to barricade oneself,
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    “One man walks out on the porch and shouts into a searchlightAttention is drawn to him and
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    "Think I'll head on home, Wireman
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    "That's the plan I turned to the disarray on the
    table"Wireman?"
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    "Why does she mess them up when she's like this?"
    "I thinkbecause she can't stand looking at
    what she's not
    I started to turn aroundHe put a hand on my
    shoulder
    "I'd just as soon you didn't look at me just now,"
    he saidHis voice was barely under control"I'm
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    503
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    to take the beachWould you do that?"
    I did thatAnd when I got back, I worked on his
    portraitBy which I suppose I
    mean it was goodI could see his face in there,
    wanting to come outThere was
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    reached out and grasped Reba by her soft middleI
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    eitherAnd Pam? Pam's only scared, because this
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    Never mind that for a few moments I wanted to kill
    herOr that, if she'd been there in the Florida
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    "Ilse didn't tell me
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    284
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    enoughThere was another moment of silenceIt
    pulsed like black feltThen she burst out: "That
    bitch! She saw it and told you! It's the only way
    you could know! Well it means nothing! It proves
    nothing!"
    "This isn't court, Pam," I said
    She made no reply, but I could hear her breathing
    "Ilse did have her suspicions about this guy Max,
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    her, you'll break her heart"And
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    bastard, I wish you were dead
    At least I no longer felt that way about her
    The track on the water had darkened to burnished
    copperNow the orange would begin to creep in
    "What do you know about Tom's state of mind?"
    285
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    2:22 am
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    and trillingFamiliar, but not mine“Whoam I?”
    “You're you,” Ian told me“And you're right where you belong
    I pulled one of my hands free from the giant's hand that held itI meant to touch my face, but
    someone's hand reached toward me, and I froze
    The reaching hand also froze above me
    I tried to move my hand again, to protect myself, but that moved the hand above meI started
    shaking, and the hand trembled
    I opened and closed the hand, looking at it carefully
    Was thismy hand, this tiny thing? It was a child's hand, except for the long pink-and-white
    nails, filed into perfect, smooth curvesThe skin was fair, with a strange silvery cast to it and,
    entirely incongruous, a scattering of golden freckles
    It was the odd combination of silver and gold that brought the image back: I could see a face in
    my head, reflected in a mirror
    The setting of the memory threw me off for a moment because I wasn't used to so much
    civilization–at the same time, I knew nothingbut civilizationA pretty dresser with all kinds of
    frilly and delicate things on top of itA profusion of dainty glass bottles containing the scents I
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    We started down the steep pathway in, Jared leadingThe santos cartier watch utter blackness did not bother meI
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    We were halfway there when a familiar voice called out from a distanceIt echoed down the
    tunnel, fracturing
    “They're back… ack… back!” Jamie was shouting
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