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The skyway system was an elaborate network of streets in the sky--enclosed pedestrian bridges connecting the don Minneapolis office toith each other It stretched fourteen blocks north to south and another ten blocks east to west, and its purpose was toanyone actually step outside It has reached the point where you now often see people coes in the suburbs to one of don’sardless of weather conditions I didn’t care for the skyway myself and seldo east, then south, until I reached One Financial Plaza

Dr Jillian DeMarais--called Jilly by those of us who have slept with her--had a two-roos hanging on the walls of the outer rooh The few tias This tih It was a print of one of Vincent’s swirling color-and-light shows, and for afor

How crazy is that?

"May I help you?"

The voice came from the inner room, Jillian’s office, and the place where she actually did her headshrinking Ain the doorway

"Rushmore McKenzie," she said slowly

"Hi, Jilly"

I smiled at her, but she didn’t smile back

"I don’t knohat to say, McKenzie The last ti me what a nasty person I was"

"I’m very sorry about that," I said, and I meant it Yet it was hardly my fault Jill had hypnotized me to help me recall a license plate number While I was under, she asked why I had broken up with her several months earlier I told her the truth

"I neveryou"

"You did anyway"

"I know I’m sorry Truly I a, why are you here?"

"Jill, the dream came back"

Her hard face softened Not much--you had to look closely to see it, yet it was there

"I told you it would," she said

"I know"

"Come in"

Jillian led the way deep into her office She maneuvered around her impressive desk and sat down She told back chair in front of the desk

"Is the dream exactly the same as before?" she asked

"It started that way, but nowI see it in slow s that occurred after the shooting"

"But all dealing with the shooting"

"Yes"

"When did the dreaht, when I was in jail"

"Jail?"

"It was a bogus charge I was in and out in just a few hours"

"But that’s when the dreaet thrown in jail?"

"It was nothing--a hassle with a young cop as out of line"

"He was out of line?"

"Yes"

"Not you?"

"Well"

"Well?"

"I could have handled it better"

"I understand"

"Do you? Because I don’t"

Jill pressed her fingers against her tehed "I should never have allowed you to quit therapy," she said "I should never have agreed to date you" She closed her eyes and shook her head at the ain, she reached for a notepad "I’ll give you the naood men"

She emphasized men

"Can’t you help me?"

"Not this time"