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She alsoa look at some old arrowheads and rocks that weren’t for sale, but she’d mentioned offhand

Thankfully, she never let him inside

When she’d started these sales, I warned her not to let anyone in the house Everything for sale should be outside or in the garage

Dallas is a good town, full of good people, but we do get strangers off the highway every so often who don’t have the best intentions

Soet oily creeps like Hudson

I shouldn’t let it eat me

Aunt Faye doesn’t have anything ofThe silver coins were probably the most valuable, and she took them to an antiques store in Dickinson where they fetched a few thousand bucks

I stab at a beer tap, filling a new round for a table of guys playing pool, trying not to watch as the two of them take a seat at a table on the far side of a dark, cozy corner

Alht now

Why do you care, asshole? a voice growls in the back of my head

Shelly’s a grooman now Remember?

She’s probably gone out on hundreds of dates with preppie Eastern boys who’d make Hudson look like a disheveled bum

Key difference: I wasn’t there to see her with those dudes

I wasn’t there to slowly go insane frout

Trying like hell to ignore them, I focus on my bartender duties, but son of a bitch, it’s hard