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Now the television is showing the paintings inside the church There is a sad, long-faced Jesus lass, and had been smashed and reassembled Taylor rolls over on her stomach and nuzzles Turtle’s neck Her spirit is revived by the exact unchanging s nutty and sweet, like peanut butter She blows against her brown cheek, etting depressing," she says
"Could atch soets up and changes the station to a ry ho is trying to ruin the life of her rabbity husband, who ran off with a rich ro about the movie seems realistic to Taylor, but Turtle asks her not to talk to the TV, so she tries They both like the s, and they laugh Taylor also likes the Indian actor who plays the rich lady’s s, "Garcia, take care of it this instant!" and Garcia keeps rolling his eyes and walking away
In the last few days Taylor has been noticing ies of Indians everywhere: the Indian-chief profile on a Pontiac
The innocent-looking girl on the corn-oil arine The hook-nosed cartoon mascot of the Cleveland Indians, who played in Tucson Taylor wonders what Annawake meant when she said Turtle should be in touch with her Indian side Maybe that doesn’t mean feathers, but if not, then what? Taylor is supposedly part Indian herself; Alice used to talk about sorandmother way in the back of the closet, but everybody and his brother has one of those, even Elvis Presley did Where do you draw the line?
Maybe being an Indian isn’t any one thing, anyWhat mascot would they use for a team called the Cleveland White People?
The movie has become a commercial without Taylor’s notice: she realizes now that the dancing wo to do with Garcia the Indian butler
Taylor doesn’t care for her own train of thought She could end up like the wo people, "Have you seen the Indians?"
Just as Angie’s bones predicted, Lucky returned with the end of the rainstor on model trains "Next time use your brain and call me, will you, Otis?" she scolds when he drops Lucky off at the diner
"My phone went out," Otis says
"My butt," Angie replies
Otis is very old and bald, with bad posture and big splay feet in white sneakers She orders him inside for a piece of pie, and he obeys Like everyone else around, he seeie Taylor marvels at this talent of hers, like one of the superpowers a cartoon character could possess: the hypersonic y yellos fro in a puddle around her feet like bedraggled water lilies "Do you put these up every time he disappears?"