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"You think I’h the hts at once He colasses, and reads

"Lou Ann: wants to know if you took Dramamine for Turtle because she threw up that tiain: to tell you never mind, it was her son that threw up in the car"

"Lou Ann often called ainst her kneecap So else she see her own knees, or the backs of her hands Jax has tried it out in private, to see how it feels to love oneself unconsciously

"Okay," he says, "I’e "Charla Rand from the Phoenix Gazette Marsh Levin frorapher froa Carter from the Fresno Bee"

"The what? I don’t believe this What do they want?"

"The story of the year A suspense- characters, a fa"

"Shit Is that all of thees"

"Skip over the Queen Bee News exetera"

"Check Skip the Queen Bee News and the Lou Anns" He turns a couple of pages and then flips back "Oh, yourdown

She thought she saw you on the news"

"In Kentucky? That can’t be"

"Well, basketball season’s over"

"Lord, it must have scared the bejesus out of her"

"Don’t worry, I’ood in crisis situations I told her she was hallucinating Then after I heard, I called her back and told her you and Turtle pulled through without a scratch"

"It’s not like we fell down any holes"

"She won’t completely believe that till she hears fro"

"She wants a new picture of Turtle Her theory is that in the one you sent Santa Claus looks like Sirhan Sirhan"

"No, like Lee Harvey Oswald"