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It went on from there Her attention was coo home That was the heart of the story, and ittime; she barely remembered it, just a shadowy sense of certain rooms As the ether and awoke in the bosom of her family, Amy decided to try this She had no ruby slippers, but her mother had a pair of boots, very tall, with pointed heels As nearly to her crotch; the heels were very high,it difficult to walk She took tender steps around the roo of it, and when she felt coether, three times There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home, there’s no place like hoesture that when she opened her eyes she was shocked to discover that nothing had happened She was still in the motel, with its dirty carpet and dull immovable furniture She yanked off the boots, hurled thean to cry Sheshe saas herAhly by the shoulder; her top was stained and torn Coot to go, right now

Carter was ski, crisp and brown

"I thought ere taking the day off," Aet these here Bothers irls had reached the part of the movie where Dorothy and her companions entered the Emerald City

"They should turn it down a bit," Carter re to work so to wreck their ears"

Yes, she would reen The s Carter lay the skimmer on the pool deck and took a chair across from her They listened to the irls erupted in happy shrieks

"How many times they watch that?" Carter asked

"Oh, quite a few"

"When I was a boy, seemed like it was on TV about half the time Scared the wits out of h"

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They loaded the Huo coht with him--rope and tackle, a spinner net, a pair of wrenches, blankets, a si Sara along," Peter said "She’d know better than any of us what to do"

Greer heaved a jug over the tailgate "Not a good idea at this point We need to keep the nuet word out to the townships," Peter told Apgar "People need to take shelter Base, we can send out vehicles to bring as lanced at Chase "Ford? You’ve got the chair"

"Understood"

Peter addressed Apgar again: "My son and his faeneral didn’t let hiet soot a hardbox on the property"

"I’ll pass that along"

Greer aiting at the wheel, Michael riding shotgun Peter clio," he said

It was 1830 The sun would set in two hours

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Sara and Hollis were ood time They had entered the zone everybody called the Gap--a stretch of e the Guadalupe nohich gurgled pleasantly in the shallows Fat live oaks stretched their canopies over the roadway; then they came to an open stretch, the low sun in their faces, then uy needs a break," Sara said

They dis on the bank, Hollis’sface to the water without hesitation, but the gelding seemed uncertain Sara removed her boots, rolled up her pants, and led him into the shallows to drink The water onderfully cold, the river bottom made of smooth limestone, firm underfoot