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"Like a note you’d send somebody after you stayed in their house?"

"Exactly like that ’Thanks for letting erator, and I broke a coffee cup Sorry, I hope it wasn’t your favorite one’"

I laughed because I understood "in balance" I would have called it "keeping the peace," or ood idea," I said "Especially since we’re still here sleeping on God’s couch We’re peruests"

"Yep, we are Better re back hoe found it"

It was a new angle on religion, for ation And the ht about it, even more embarrassed for my bluntly utilitarian culture "The way they tell it to us Anglos, God put the earth here for us to use, ard-ho Like a special little playground"

Loyd said, "Well, that explains a lot"

It explained a hell of a lot I said quietly, because the dancers’ bells were quieting down, "But where do you go when you’ve pissed in every corner of your playground?" I looked down at Koshari, who had ditched his cowboy hat and gun and see with Jack

I re he’d die for the land And I’d thought he meant patriotism I’d had no idea I wondered what he sahen he looked at the Black Mountainits own guts and soon to destroy the living trees and home lives of Grace It was such an A s, Loyd had told ely for puravel I’d thrown into the air in handfuls Pumice was required for the manufacture of so-called distressed denim jeans

To people who think of theuests, Aant beyond belief Or stupid A nation of a as if there were no other day but today Assuet what had been done to it

Our Koshari friend had soht off Jack and taken away the ladder that was Loyd’s andnow, panto to the crohich was laughing At one point they all applauded Loyd was plainly e?" I asked

"I’ll tell you in a one to another part of the plaza and people had stopped staring, I pressed Loyd again

"He said noe’ll have to stay up here together a long time"

"He talked for five minutes, Loyd I know he said more than that"

"Yeah He said by the ti there’d have to be a wedding"