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He nodded doubtfully

"I’e We’ll both be in school this fall In Cleary We can do our hoether"

"In the same school?"

"No Different ones You’ll see Dr Byron did this totally a and talked to professors over at CCC He’s like a superhero They set me up with a job and stuff I went over there one day when you were at school"

"What will you be?"

"I’ll work in a lab, like now Except not in a barn It’s work-study, they pay you and you go to college It’s not veryelse too, like a waitress We’ll see We’ll be eating beans and rice, let me tell you"

"Like at Josefina’s?" he asked, interested

"Yeah," she said, a little surprised, unsure she had meant it literally But he obviously had a taste for the fare Here she went, one e into the "Not Applicable" basement If that list was the wave of the future, as he’d declared it, her kids ay out ahead of the game Thriftiness skills: check

"But ill you be?" Preston asked

"You row up? I don’t even know There’s too many choices Maybe a vet So people would pay sixty dollars to see ue under his lower lip, wary of her spoofing Which was fair, given the full complement of unbelievables she’d just laid on him

"Okay, seriously?" she asked "Some kind of scientist, I think Like you, Preston We’re peas in a pod"

"But will you still be et to fire istering so new "Where will Dad sleep in the apartment?"

"Oh No Dad stays here You and Cordie will visit hione insane

"Not visit I don’t mean that You’ll live here too, this will still be your home part of the time Like on weekends, or after school And you’ll see Mammaw and Pappaw And the lambs All the time"