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She couldn’t change things, and she was exhausted She changed into a giant T-shirt, scrubbed her face and teeth and headed to bed

She turned off the lights and tried to listen to the revelry froh

She turned on MTV--ht lull her to sleep

She did fall asleep And for a while, it onderful

And then the dreaia Dare’s head and sand

Georgia’s lips were

"Oh, please! Listen If you’ll just pay attention! You kno that I wasn’t being silly and hysterical and there were no jokes being played!"

One of Georgia’s disarticulated arers in the air

"Listen…pay attention, oh, please, Vanessa, you can do it!"

"Please!" Travis begged, hisHeI can do!" Vanessa protested

She felt as if she were in a wind tunnel then, being sucked away from them She was out on the sea, and then she was in the water, and she had a caurehead appeared before her It seemed that it, too, had ar was an animate object--a person

She saw the face on it that she had always seen

That of Dona Isabella

The figurehead was s, or telling the figurehead how she felt in her mind, she wasn’t even sure

"No I don’t want to find urehead said to her

"There should be justice"

Suddenly, the ie It led to stay cheeks

Brows becaain

The nose and ed It held a different face But she knew that face, too

She had seen it that afternoon She had seen it on the woman who had tried to talk to her The pirate wo at the table on the patio

The wo led, you urehead told her

Then she thought she heard a terrible laughter

"I’ to help you! I have helped you Listen…listen…listen…your friends have pleaded with you, you urehead began to ain

Then she saw…

The horrible,face of the woman they had found in the sunken chest