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"They won't tell ed "They'll tell you if they see fit"

"Byrne's gang got hit again," Steve Lucas told

"What happened?" I asked

"Have you seen Mike Manson? Dude He looks like he ran the one hundred-yard dash in a fifty-yard gyot the other two But I don't think so," Steve said

"Why not?"

"My old man says the Manson's are fucked up Manson's old s"

Bingo, that voice, it was Manson That's who Count pounded at Shannie's house Why would Manson show up at the Ortolans? Why would his cause such a ruckus? He had to have known Count would have been there He has balls or he's stupid

The optient's head dionked his locker transforreat watching the self proclaio down one by one Many people breathed a sigh of relief

When I got hoood news continued -to visit

"No Shit!"

"Jae fro?"

"The Monday before Thanksgiving"

"Yes! For how long?"

"Until the baby is born"

"Holy shit!"

"James!" My mother shook her head

"He'll be here for Christ A!"

"Jae You aren't the sa Your new vocabulary will shock hi up and down, I huggedweeks I was as one on a trip with her school Football season ended Jenny Wade still did not get the hint - in Shannie's absence she wasn't as annoying I was bored with schoolwork, but randfather's arrival My only escape was early iving, Beyford was threatened by a freak early season snowfall The buzz at school said five inches Electricity filled the air; excite by the way people acted in the grocery store, I got the impression snoas akin to nuclear war