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"All of you--" my mom started, but then she blanched "Oh, no"

"What? What is it?" Archie craned his face forward, his shoulders shooting up to his ears "Roundabout," he said in the exact tone a NASA scientist would announce, fiery Earth-destroying meteorite

I anchored myself onto both my brothers’ arms Walter clutched his seat belt to his chest, and Archie reverted into coachout instructions "Driver stays on the inside of the roundabout Yield when you enter, not when you’re inside Stay focused, and whatever you do, don’t hit the brakes You can do this"

We hit the roundabout as though it were a shark-infested whirlpool, all of us holding our breath except for my mom, who let out a streaularly progra When we’d finally cleared it, there was a collective exhale from the back seat, followed by one last expletive from the driver’s seat

"Great job, Moolden," Archie said, unhookinghi You’re awful at it"

"You can’t be awful at swearing," she said shakily

"You have single-handedly disproven that theory," Walt argued "There’s a science to it; soether You can’t just throw the to throw you all out at once," Mom said

"See, that’s good, Mom," he said "Maybe stick to the clever quips At least those make sense"

"It’s about context And respect for the forers into ry-callared at all of us "She can use whatever coets us back to the hotel safely Remember what you practice in your business roaned "You’ve invoked the Catarina"

"There’s no reason to bring her into this," I added

Moo a pants and oversize T-shirts for a real estate wardrobe and a bunch of Be the Business, Feel the Business audio recordings frouru named Catarina Hayford And we couldn’t even make fun of her for it, because in one year she had outsold 90 percent of her ency’s billboards This meant that I could be al imperiously down on me And with her new busy schedule, some days it was the only ti all of you to Ireland," Mo

Walt piped up "You didn’t pay for it--Aunt Mel did And besides, if it weren’t for Addie and Ian’s perfor wedding, even with that crazy scenery" He nudged me "My favorite part was the moment when little sis here decided to shove Ian off the cliff There was this deliberateness to it Like that scene in The Princess Bride when Buttercup shoves Wesley and he’s rolling down the hill yelling, ‘As yooooou wiiiiiish!’ "

"Two things," Ian said, his long hair brushing his shoulder as he looked back His gaze skipped right overas the Cliffs of Moher is where they filmed the Cliffs of Insanity scenes And two, did you even see what happened?"

Walter drew his breath in sharply "Why didn’t anyone tell ht We were totally at the Cliffs of Insanity We could have done a reenact" I laced ot started, he was a human diesel train Loud and really hard to stop