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"Well, yes If you want to put it that way"

"Where does this woainst her upper lip, blotting sweat She laid it out on her lap and pressed it with her hand, keeping her fingers together in a wedge like an iron I saw Rosie’s flinty gaze follow every ive Moza’s hand a sht so too because she quit fiddling with the towel and looked up at Rosie with guilt "What?"

Rosie enunciated carefully, as though speaking to an alien "Where does Lila Sams come from?"

"A little town in Idaho"

"What little town?"

"Well, I don’t know," Moza said defensively

"You have a wo in your house and you don’t knohat town she comes from?"

"What difference does it make?"

"And you don’t knohat difference it erated astonishment Moza broke eye contact and folded the towel into a bishop’s miter

"You do e that?"

"I’ll try," Moza said "But she doesn’t like people prying She told me that and she was quite definite"