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"I don’t think there’s any way to find out"

"Your ht be ht, to say that she’d failed He said, "She died a long tio"

"And your father…"

"Died before I was born," Keller said, wondering if it was true "You asked ht remember I’m the only one who’s still around, and I don’t re"

"There are ways to recover a lot of early memory," she said, and popped a chocolate into her mouth "All the way back to birth, in some instances, and I’ve known people who claim they can remember their own conception But I don’t kno much to credit all of that Is ita watch at the ti," he said "I don’t know the doctor’s naot a copy of my birth certificate It doesn’t have the time of birth, just the date, but do you suppose the Bureau of Vital Statistics would have the information on file somewhere?"

"Possibly," she said, "but don’t worry about it I can check it"

"On the Internet? Sohed "No, not that You said your o to the hospital"

"That’s what she said"

"And you were a fairly easy birth"

"Once her labor started, I caht out"

"You wanted to be here Now you happen to be a Gemini, John, and… shall I call you John?"

"If you want"

"Well, what do people generally call you?"

"Keller"

"Very well, Mr Keller I’ it formal if you prefer it that way, and-"

"Not Mr Keller," he said "Just plain Keller"

"Oh"

"That’s what people generally callto work I’h school kids used to call each other by their last narown up ‘Hey, Carpenter, you finish the algebra homework?’ I can’t call you Keller"

"Don’t worry about it"

"I’ neurotic, I realize that, but-"

"John is fine"

"Well then," she said, and rearranged herself in the chair "You’re a Gemini, John, as I’m sure you know A late Geht on the cusp of Cancer"

"Is that good?"

"Nothing’s necessarily good or bad in astrology, John But it’s good in that I enjoy working with Gen"

"How so?"

"The duality Ge about the properties of the sign, and he nodded, agreeing but not really taking it all in And then she was saying, "I suppose theabout Geminis is their relationship to the truth Geminis are naturally duplicitous, yet they have an inner reverence for the truth that echoes their opposite nuittarius, of course, and your typical Sadge couldn’t tell a lie to save his soul Ge occasionally capable of this startling Sagittarean candor"

"I see"

He was influenced as well by Cancer, she continued, having his sun on its cusp, along with a couple of planets in that sign And he had a Taurus moon, she told him, and that was the best possible place for the moon to be "The moon is exalted in Taurus," she said "Have you noticed in the course of your life how things generally turn out all right for you, even when they don’t? And don’t you have an inner core, a sort of bedrock stability that lets you always knoho you are?"

"I don’t know about that last part," he said "I’ot you here" She reached for another chocolate "Your tin, and that’s important in any number of ways, but in the absence of available infor to y, John, but it’s not the only tool I use I’s My intuition tells "

"If you say so"

"And I prepared a chart for you on that basis I could tell you a lot of technical things about your chart, but I can’t believe you’re interested in all that, are you?"

"You’re psychic, all right"

"So instead of nattering on about trines and squares and oppositions, let entle person, John"

Oh?

"But there’s so much violence in your life"

Oh

"That’s the fa "On the one hand, you’re thoughtful and sensitive and calry?"

"Not very often"

"No, and I don’t think you stifle your anger, either I get that it’s just not a part of the equation But there’s violence all around you, isn’t there?"

"It’s a violent world we live in"

"There’s been violence swirling around you all your life You’re very much a part of it, and yet you’re somehow untouched by it" She tapped the sheet of paper, with his stars and planets all marked out "You don’t have an easy chart," she said