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"Your rooh school I had posters of Paul Revere and the Raiders and dead corsages stuck in the o over to your house it was like a room somebody’s just moved out of"

"I’m neat," I said

"It’s not neat It’s hyper neat"

"Can you iine what Doc Homer would have said if Paul Revere and the Raiders turned up in his hohed

"Emelina, who’s Uda Ruth Dell?"

"Well, you know her, she lives up by Doc Homer She used to take care of you sometimes, I think Her and that other woman that’s dead now, I think her name was Nao all day to place her I couldn’t believe I’d draw a complete blank on someone who’d been a fixture of my childhood

"Sure Uda’s husband Eddie saved you and Hallie’s life that tiot stranded in a storm down by the crick"

"I don’t have any idea what you’re talking about"

"Yes you do When you and Hallie almost drowned in that flood You were just little"

"Well, how do you remember it, then? I don’t"

"Everybody knew about that It was a famous incident You hid down in a coyote burrow and wouldn’t co you out You all stayed at Uda’s Doc Ho"