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"And then, quite slowly, he began to fade I heard his voice grow faint and then becoether, but in those last moments I said, 'Goblin, wait for uard the house for er I need you to do it Make sureRamona and Clem and Allen are all safe ¡¯

"It was a song I had been singing to hiently, and then I saw him no more

"The feeling of severance, the feeling of pure loneso and awful, and it was as if someone had taken all my clothes from me and left me in a desert place For a full hour, perhapsthis feeling ofdesperately to realize I was free of hio on with the tasks of Manhood, to be Tommy's devoted nephew, to make Aunt Queen happy, to learn fro for me!

"But I ithout Goblin Utterly without And I felt a quality of agony that I had never known

"Strange that in this lengthening after served another glass of wine by the sweet stewardess, as the plane seeines, and I couldn't even hear the voices of Tommy and Aunt Queen, no, couldn't even see the and cold interval that I realized I hadn't said farewell to Patsy

"I hadn't even tried to find Patsy None of us, to ht of her Not even Clem had asked what he should do should she want the lis her singers and her drummers into the house?

"No one had given her a thought either negative or positive, and now I laood-bye A coldness stole over me Did I miss her? No, I missed Goblin I felt as if my skin had been peeled and the cold winds had me

"Patsy, et the medical care she needed? I felt too weary suddenly to tackle the problem, and certainly too alienated and too far away

"And then a fear gripped me, not just a fear but a certainty

"And realizing that I couldn't possibly be reached by phone on this plane but that I could phone Blackwood Manor, I broke out my new credit card and phoned home

"I could hear the glass breaking in the background before I heard Jasmine's voice

" 'Thank God it's you,' she declared 'Do you knohat he's doing? He's breaking every pane of glass in this place He's on a rae

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" 'Tell me exactly,' I said 'Can you see him?¡¯

" 'No, I can't see hi roo them, one after another ¡¯