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"She volunteers at the church," I said "Oh My God! She volunteers at the church!"

"No matter how many times you say it out loud," Sinclair said, "it still seeroup of kids-all girls in their late teens-for the last two hours I wasn&039;t sure which of them was my sister-there were three blondes, two brunettes, and even a strawberry blonde in the group They&039;d gone from the U (my mom hadabout twenty school regs in the process) to an apartment house in Dinkytown, and now they had all trooped into the local Presbyterian church

"They&039;re like a flock," Sinclair observed

"That&039;s just what girls do at that age" Heck, any age "They travel in clu"

We were in Sinclair&039;s Passat I know, I know the king and queen of the va the really good cars-the convertible (a Mustang ironically a convertible), the Spider, the various other pretty cars that I didn&039;t know the na

Maybe he had hauled the good ones out before to i dance, it was Passat time

Ridiculous

Right?

"I&039; in," I said I waited for him to caution me, to warn me not to be heedless, to be careful, to insist I wait until the devil&039;s spaas in a place he could go, too

Instead, I got, "That seeirl"

"Well, so I&039;ll go in Wait here for ain; I could have started disrobing, and he probably wouldn&039;t have looked away

"Hey, how coo in a church and you can&039;t?"

"Ask her," he suggested

"I think I&039;ll work up to that one," I replied and climbed out of the Passat to cross the street

I opened the door and walked into the church, hoping Sinclair was noticing the awesoain, why did the queen care! Was the queen at heart a pathetic loser who could blow off a guy while he was all over her, but theabout hi to herself in the third person?

But I had to ad ainstconcerned about me, always ready to take one for the tea sneaky and withholding