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"That’s okay" I felt a little intih I’d kept up with the family, it was inconceivable that in my absence from Grace Emelina could have produced this whole blue-eyed tribe of hus

"Moht?" Mason asked

"No sir, you can’t So ere eating that cake, JT was saying how he’d better not have an accident on the railroad, because poppyseeds show up so test"

"That’s true, they would" I reconsidered this "He’d register positive for opiates Poppyseeds are related to heroin Is he going to be in trouble?"

"No, they knoasn’t his fault It was a sun-kink or so test is just to cover their ass You knoho else was on the train? The other engineer and the brakeht rerina Loyd lived up at Whiteriver for a while but he’s moved back"

I paid attention to my heart rate, to see if it would react in any way to this infor in Greece," Glen said

"In Greek," Eetic look "I already told them you looked like a fashion model and had lived overseas They think you know David Bowie"

"Your erates," I said

Glen didn’t see to live here do I have to buy a pair of those silver loafers from the Hollywood Shop?"

She nodded seriously "I’h school without them"

The school bus honked outside "Okay, scoot," Eive s, leaving the baby beached on Emelina’s lap His eyes roa in the e I’d felt the strange disjuncture that coulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it’s like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin

"So what’s new?" she asked

"I don’t know, everything I don’t think Grace has changed, but it feels different There’s a lot I don’t remember"