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Jay stops chewing and pauses before rab for Arkansas "Is she hot?" he asks "Your sister?"

"She’s ht, Paul?"

"I had to look then I saw her," I chiirls that way"

Jay nods in approval My oes to stick his finger in the leftover batter My father looks at us both, wondering how he can have two sons who make him feel so midway

Finally, Jay starts to talk about practice, and Noah and I get our share of the edible nation My mom asks us if ant more ("I can do provinces, if you’d like"), but we both take a pass

We’re ready to leave the house

"I’d like to meet herl"my mo about Noah’s sister

We have a laugh about that as we bound down my front path

"Where noe ask each other at the same time

Both of us hesitate, not wanting to be the first to answer

Finally, we can’t take it

"The park," we say at the same tih town If anybody notices, nobody cares I knoe all like to think of the heart as the center of the body, but at this moment, every conscious part of h that hand, that feeling, that I experience everything else The only things I notice aroundout from the open door of the record store; the oldera blintz; the seven-year-old leaping fro to avoid stepping on a crack