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"We read about it in the newspaper, Daniel, right here at this table Bazzano was stabbed some twenty times in the chest with an ice pick and discovered a few days later in a trash bin It was big news"

"That John Bazzano?" Daniel now recalls the story, but I draw a dead blank Most likely it happened around the ti with Dr Blu the paper

"The ritualout three brothers in a rival Pennsylvania gang All three Can you iine?"

I s hard "Those people were mobsters?"

In the end Patience holds out her hand and takes the ten-dollar bill When times are hard, it doesn’t matter if the money is dirty or the money is clean

Windfall

"Old MacDonald had a far to Dr Blualvanized htens my load to have a little money in the money jar "And on his farm he had a chicken E-I-E-I-O" The sound of a reen pickup truck loaded ood pulls into the yard

What now? It’s Reverend Miller froed our flat e first returned to Union County A tall, young black fellow sits in the front beside hi "Why, Reverend, how nice of you to stop by Won’t you co to serve them, no biscuits, no apple butter, not even coffee

"No need for that, h I thank you kindly" He tips his straw hat and wipes sheen froht you some wood A tornado touched down in Hazel Patch in April and wreaked havoc We’re trying to get the hillside cleaned off I just dropped off a load to the Hesters, and Patience said you could use soht tornados didn’t happen in the mountains"

"Oh, they happen, but only every ten years or so Where do you want us to stack it?"

I survey the bed of the truck That’s a lot of wood! Soood for the cookstove "To the side of the house I guess"