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Sure enough, we are in Cabazon Home of two"Want to go see the dinosaurs, Harper?"

"I do!" Sasha says excitedly from the back "Look, they have a restaurant there too We can stop and eat and then go look at theain She turns towardsis definitely off with her too "You in for food and a tourist trap?"

"Sure, I’nore all the warnings going off in et off the freeway and head over to the giant T-Rex I park in front of a restaurant with the sign Eat in front I switch the engine off The lack of air-conditioning affects us immediately If you don’t have a constant strea on you, the desert heat et out at the saht the sun Even three hardened killers know this

Sasha takes a long look at the gigantic dinosaurs and then noticesher and blushes in embarrassment "I was obsessed with dinosaurs when I was a kid"

"You’re still a kid, Smurf," I tell her as I open the door of the restaurant for theain

"Did you ever see Jurassic Park, Jah "I think everyone’s seen Jurassic Park, Sasha"

"I haven’t," Harper says

"See!" Sasha exclaims She’s very excited about the dinosaurs and this rew up on a boat, she probably never even had TV I greith TV, and ent to the movies, but not a lot I saw Jurassic Park on TV once when I was like six and that’s when I decided I’d like to be a paleontologist Did you know that Ther has real dinosaur tracks and bones in the same place, James? That’s not very common You almost never see them both in the saers for the waitress She smiles at Sasha, who has directed her impromptu dinosaur lesson towards Harper now, and winks at e, aren’t they?"

"Who?" I ask, following behind her as she leads us to a table

She sets the hters I have three" And then Harper and Sasha arrive and sit together in the booth The waitress walks off before I can correct her and for a hters?

I slide into the booth across froht," I say But she’s long gone, already chatting with another group of people on the other side of the restaurant

"Twenty-eight is old, Jah to be my father"

"I’ mistake to think of me that way" I feel the silence irls were actually talking But things go still

When I look up Sasha is glaring at h her clenched teeth "I’d never want you for a father anyway You’re an assle"