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There were two kinds of people in the world Logical people who saw reason and agreed with me about the Jimmie Simpson Community Center Then there were the others The others, antedernails, just to hear me scream

Right noas surrounded by the others

Looking out at the le moms, all I saas bloodlust in their eyes Even the toddlers were sharpening their incisors on their teething rings

But no one looked le inforloves and so hty-year-old body she nearly levitated

“Mrs Vogler,” I said with as much calm as I could muster “As I’ve explained, the activities and services that are currently offered here will be held in the new building”

“But,” she said, standing in the front row of the s belly of the Jimmie Si that new building?”

“Yeah,” one of thea baby in her ar the cookies we’d laid out Seriously, she needed to be watching that kid instead of asking the same damn questions I’d heard—and answered—a thousand ti to take?”

“Once we tear down the existing building it will take a year—”

“A year!” Another one of the mothers cried as if I’d just said I wanted to eat her kid for lunch

“Well,” Mrs Vogler said, “that’s what you say now, but what about what happened over at the Glenview Community Center?”

There were ru The Glenview sat, half-built, a total waste of time and money There was simply no way the city could finish that project with the li community centers were in such terrible shape Never ard Tohere the programs offered by the center were at capacity and Glenvieas over in up-and-co Spanish Tohere there wasn’t nearly the derams

I’d tried to explain this, but thelike a broken record A broken record speaking German