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Not that he doesn’t have the biggest heart in the world When kids colue traps on which live mice are trapped, Pete has been known to take the traps out to the park and pour oil onto theo He can’t stand the idea of anyone--or anything--dying on his watch

"Coroner’ll run tests for alcohol and drugs, I’ "If he ever gets here, that is"

I’m horrified

"You mean she…she’s still here? I mean, it--the body?"

Pete nods "Downstairs Bottom of the elevator shaft That’s where they found her"

"That’s where who found her?" I ask

"The fire depart her"

"Seeing her fall?"

"No Seeing her lying there Someone looked down the crack--you know, between the floor and the elevator car--and saw her"

I feel shaken "You mean nobody reported it when it happened? The people ith her?"

"What people?" Pete wants to know

"The people she was elevator surfing with," I say "She had to be with soame alone They didn’t co to h the crack"

I a down there for hours?" I ask,ht away "She landed headfirst"

"Santa Maria," Magda says, and crosses herself

I ahtly less appalled "So…then how’d they knoho it was?"

"Had her school ID in her pocket," Pete explains

"Well, at least she was thinking ahead," Magda says