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My best friend, Mary Lou Molnar, said she heard Morelli had a tongue like a lizard

“Holy cow,” I'd answered, “what's that supposed to mean?”

“Just don't let hiets you alonethat's it You're done for”

I hadn't seen much of Morelli since the train episode I supposed he'd enlarged his repertoire of sexual exploitation I openedfor the worst “You aren't talking about rape, are you?”

“I'uy is irresistible”

Aside froe of six by you-knoho, I was untouched I was saving in,” I said, as if this was news “I'ins”

“He specializes in virgins! The brush of his fingertips turns virgins into slobbering mush”

Teeks later, Joe Morelli came into the bakery where I worked every day after school, Tasty Pastry, on Haht a chocolate-chip cannoli, told me he'd joined the navy, and char, on the floor of Tasty Pastry, behind the case filled with chocolate éclairs

The next time I saw him, I was three years older I was onin front of Giovichinni's Meat Market I gunned the big V-8 engine, ju hiot out to assess the da broken?”

He was sprawled on the pave”

“Good,” I said Then I turned on ot into the Buick, and drove to the mall

I attribute the incident to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since