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"Pretty much I mean, I think so"

"Can’t we talk just as easily out here?"

"I guess"

We stared at each other for a moment

"I’m ready anytime," I said

"I was trying to think how to say this Re around by the road while the officers were digging?"

"Thursday of last week I reot out, curious about as happening"

I said, "Right" Mentally, I leaped past the foreplay, guessing at his intent I anticipated histo offset any da ht her na hi, I nearly ht I knew and later I realized he reminded me of one of the pirates I only saw him for a second and I really didn’t make the connection until yesterday You kno it is when you see souy looked familiar, but I couldn’t think why Then it came to me"

"One of the two pirates," I said

"Exactly"

I allowedto block the impact of his sister’s revelations In that split second, I understood how completely my perception of Sutton had been tainted by what she’d told me Even as I resisted the pull, my response to him was skewed by the notion of his tentative hold on the truth She’d sworn he’d co me a neist, the next installment in a dra this," I said "The guys were burying a dog"