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“Except that going to a baseball game isn’t usually considered work”

“And writing is?” SondraBeth scoffed “Of course, I understand that you have better things to do, but you never come at all”

“It makes me uncomfortable, okay?”

“But why?”

“It’s all those people ‘People, touching other people It’s the creepiest thing in the world,’” Pandy sang out goofily

SondraBeth pointed her finger “Aha! I knew it! That’s the reason you never come to the set You secretly want to be an actress”

“What?” Pandy laughed Where the hell had SondraBeth gotten that idea?

“That little thing you just did That is what people do when they think they can maybe act They try it out”

“No,” Pandy countered cautiously “I only ever wanted to be a writer I swear”

Even to her own ears, she didn’t sound convincing, probably because SondraBeth was right: She had fantasized about acting when she was a kid Who hadn’t?

“I’ll bet you practiced ues With your sister,” SondraBeth posited cleverly

“So?” Pandy said

“So, I want to see Show ue”

“Now?”

SondraBeth parroted the island’s pet refrain: “Do you have so better to do?”