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" 'Patsy Bad,' he responded in the telepathic voice I could feel his kisses on my cheek and my neck For a split second, I felt his hand on my cock
"I reached down and gently e had been done I had to nail down hard on myself Then I spoke to him:
" 'No, it's not Patsy's fault,' I said out loud 'She was just being Patsy, that's all Now, you go and leave o downstairs I have to see to things ¡¯
"He gave th I could see nothing in him that appeared spectral or ephemeral But he vanished as I had asked him to, and the baubles of the chandeliers moved as if he had evacuated the room at his departure
"I stood staring at the chandelier It hadn't hit me yet that nobody alive inhabited this back bedroo to get through Goblin had been the ied Goblin, but ould ever understand?
"When I ca at the table just staring atRa at her Lolly was there too, all dressed up for a date, her copper skin and rippling yellow hair just gorgeous, and there was Jasmine in her apron in the far corner by the back door
"I could hear Aunt Queen crying in her bedroom Her nurse, Cindy, had arrived, and I could hear Cindy's sympathetic tones as she tried to comfort her
"Patsy's eyes were glassy and hard and she was chewing a piece of guarette on her lip and snapped her lighter She had her huge poofed-up stage hairstyle, and her lips were thickly made-up with frosted pink lipstick
" 'So everybody's going to want to knoe were talking about,' she said There was a little tremor in her voice, a note I'd never heard before, but I wasn't sure anybody else heard it
" 'Seymour says you wanted some money,' Jasmine said
" 'Yeah, I wanted money,' said Patsy, in her hard voice, 'and it's not like he didn't have it to give He had it Just wait till they read his will He was loaded, and what did he ever do with it? But that's not what set hi for his chest and throwing up and dying ¡¯
" 'So what did?' asked Jasmine
" 'I told him I was sick,' said Patsy 'I told him I was HIV-positive ¡¯
"Silence Then Big Ramona looked at me
" 'What's she talking about?' she asked