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"No, Dellon, it’s nothing personal against your body organs But men are just not necessarily always the solution"

He stares at her until his truck runs into the ditch He glances up and swerves back "I’ to have to put that in ives hi boys dead for twenty-seven years, with absence of malice "You just do that"

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THE GAMBLING AGENDA

THE MEETING THAT TOOK PLACE previously in the Council Chao question On the blackboard at the front of the roo letters: TODAY’S AGENDA--

GAMING ON TRIBAL LAND, YAY OR NAY? PRESENTA-TIONS

1 Cyrus Stonecipher "The pritfalls of ga, a story too often told"

2 Betty Louise Squirrel "BINGO, everybody wins!"

Annawake Fourkiller and Andy Rainbelt sit at the long speakers’ table down in front with their backs to the chalk-board, apparently unaware of the gaenda Andy Rainbelt seems festive in a blue calico shirt with satin ribbon trim at the yoke, similar to the one Annaore the day she and Taylor met Taylor can remember exactly how she looked Today she’s a different person, in black-rilasses and a haircut that see it out of her way

Turtle, Taylor, and Alice are sitting together in the red movie-theater chairs that fill the ss so the toes of her sneakers druainst the empty seat in front of her The rows are set in a V-shape facing the speakers’ table, with an aisle down the center Those in attendance have assu interpretation, in which the center aisle divides the two fa up briskly

Cash in over there and so is Letty, in a red dress with an iold buttons down the front; countless other friends and relations have trailed in with children and greetings andavery sporting She holds the hand of an old, extres between his shoulder blades in a white plait as thin a prickly as binder’s twine The heavyset woman aited on Alice and Annawake in the coffee shop hustles in, leaning into Letty’s row in a businesslike way to inform Letty that the half-size dress patterns are in at Woolworth’s in Tahlequah