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She waited a few more minutes and then decided to risk it He wore blue jeans sis ider, especially the cuffs at the bottom She patted the front pockets of his jeans in search of a wallet As she did, she held her breath, waiting for his eyes to flash open and for him to scream at her to leave him alone

He hadn't woke up by the tih, she decided to roll him onto his stomach to search his back pockets She hoped his wallet hadn't fallen off of hi the storm so she wouldn't lose this opportunity to learn ht keep it in the bedroom or perhaps in another rooet it over with She groaned as she rolled him first onto his side and then the rest of the way onto his stomach The man still didn't wake up; he just lay there like the dead fish she had found

Even without patting his pockets, she could tell froe in his rear left pocket that his wallet was in there She stuck her hand into the pocket and felt a leather rectangle She paused aup and then yanked the wallet free

Like a frightened animal she scurried over to a corner with the wallet in her hands She curled up in the corner so he wouldn't see her going through his wallet should he wake up If she were lucky, she could look through the wallet and return it before he woke

The wallet was e piece of leather folded over to take up less room She flipped it open to reveal rows of cards made out of a thin, hard material Plastic, she remembered She took a card with the title "Discover" in shiny print that seeht Beneath the title she saw a row of nu to her

Below that was a naado That ht trigger some memory, but it didn't She put the card back into its slot and then went through the others

The fifth one she took out was the reen Beneath that was a small picture of the man from the boat, his face less lined and without the beard The na her suspicions The card listed his height at six-foot-two, his weight at two hundred ten pounds, and his birthday as July 7, 1965 That would make hi to the card, he lived in a place called Portland The card also stated the obvious fact that his hair was black and also that his eyes were brown