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"You still have plenty of guardian angels"

"I don’t think anybody in this town re about that, they do remember I think people are sorry And they love you Look at your refrigerator"

He gave me an odd, eerators don’t preserve love," he said

"The hell they don’t Yours does The women in this town bake you casseroles and pies like the world was going to end"

Heout of his nose He seeive themselves for the past," I said "Mother died before they could get everything straightened out And then you kind of took your phone off the hook, eain "We aren’t from here, we came from the outside That is our myth and every person in Grace believes it, because they want to They don’t want to see a Nolina when they look at me They want a man they can trust with their children’s ear infections And I ah, history will bend to acco about that What’s true is true, no matter how many ways you deny it"

He closed his eyes for a while I’d never seen hihter, he’d never been sick

"How long are you going to stay in bed?" I asked softly, in case he was falling asleep

"I’ht want to get up for a while I can warm up some soup"

He didn’t open his eyes "Do you think Hallie is co back?"

"I don’t knohat to think We have to think yes, don’t we?"

"You’re the advocate of ordained truth Are you telling me now that we can will Hallie back to safety?"

"No I don’t guess we can We just have to wait"