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I said, "The reason I think the older boy is dead is I saw a film he was in with a man and a woer boy is either dead or in danger because last week I saw him with a man who I think was one of the performers in the film"

"And you drew these sketches"

"I couldn't draater A police artist did these"

"I see" She looked off to one side "Are there many movies like that? Is it very profitable to make them?"

"I don't kno many there are And no, I don't think it's particularly profitable I think these people made the film for their own amusement"

" 'For their own aure in Greek et why I'm sure he had a reason" Her eyes flashed at eneration of the the the newborns and… and… cooking the sex with the theer boy? You actually saw him?"

"I think it was the same man"

"Was he normal? Did he look human?" I showed her the sketch "He looks ordinary," she said "I hate that I hate the thought that ordinary people perform such awful acts I want them to look like monsters They act like monsters, why shouldn't they look like s?"

"No"

" 'I envy you,' Father Joyner said 'I envy you, I wish to God I could quit ht, well, Buster, that was a pretty well calculated way to get me to stay That was pretty crafty But I don't think so I think he meant it, I think it was the literal truth Because it's true for me I wish to God I could quit"

"I knohat you ain "I could have seen thenize them but it's possible"

"You wouldn't have seen the older one You said you've been here ten months, and I think they'd already made their picture by then"

She askedI stood there while a couple of kids entered the building and a few others left They just looked like ordinary kids, not streetwise like the ones on Forty-second, not as woebegone as their circumstances would warrant I wondered what had driven theie Hillstrom probably could have told ligent mothers Drunken violence Incest I didn't have to hear it, I could figure it all out for myself Nobody walked out of The Brady Bunch and wound up here

I was reading the rules again when she returned No one recognized either of the sketches She offered to keep theood, and gave her extra copies of both "My nuive you soht want to show those around and tell your kids not to go anywhere with a o with any men," she said "But they don't listen"

Chapter 12

"Father Michael Joyner," Gordie Keltner said "I get ets mail from him, but I'll receive his newsletters forever because I sent him money once 'I can save a boy for twenty-five dollars'- that was the headline of one of his fund-raisers 'Here's fifty,' I wrote 'Save two of them for me, won't you?' And I sent it back with ood father?"

"No"

"Neither have I, but I caught his act on the tube He was telling Phil or Geraldo or Oprah all about the danger of adult raphy in infla an industry that exploits the kids All of which ht, Oh, Michael, aren't you playing it the least bit heavy? Because I swear the good padre's as gay as a jay"

"Really?"