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"That’s Mexico," Cub said "This is here"

"Yeah You knohat I keep thinking? Our house is ours," she said "It’s not much, and I’m the first one to say it But we’ve made every pay you and I have got"

Her intensity got his attention "Did you tell him about that business in Mexico?"

She kneho he meant Ovid Byron "No, I haven’t It’s too weird It’s like the butterflies can of soulobal worries, these of all things would not help her case with Cub Teams had been chosen, and the scientists were not us, they were them That’s how Cub would see it Everyone had to play

"This rain won’t keep up," he said "They’re saying it’s a hundred-year flood So it won’t happen again for another hundred years"

Dellarobia knew this rong, bad luck didn’t work that way A person could have a long losing streak But she didn’t understand that well enough to explain "It just see the one But the debt isn’t Does itupside down just to make one payment? Like there won’t be another one next month, and the s will perk up Dad will get et buried inup there if there was any risk to it"

"The hell they wouldn’t You notice he’s not planning to do any logging up above his and Hester’s house"

"Well, you try discussing it with Dad," he said "Would Preston like this?"

She took the flat, shrink-wrapped package he handed her A dinosaur puzzle "Not really," she said "That’s kind of for younger kids" Not for the first ti if they’d played with toys like these, or if their parents gave theo to college so on Cub’s team She looked up fro about the butterflies being here? Dr Byron and the hat?" Cub asked

"The whole earth, if you want to know You wouldn’t believe some of the stuff they said, Cub It’s like the End of Days They need soure out what it all means Don’t you think that’s kind of important?"

"Well, if the butterflies fly off soo park their camper behind somebody else’s barn"

"What if there’s no place else for them to fly away to?" she asked

"There’s always soning off: Worries like that are not for people like us We have enough of our own He wasn’t wrong

"But what if there isn’t?" she persisted quietly