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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    3:06 pm
    @@@@@ "Who?" "The Anti-SemitenWhy don't they
    @@@@@
    "Who?"
    "The Anti-SemitenWhy don't they ever learn? Why does God permit it?"
    Roth sneered"God is a luxury I don't give myself Goldstein struck the palm of his hand with his fist"No, I just don't understand itHow can God look down on it and permit it? We're supposed to be the chosen people"Chosen! Chosen for tsoris!"
    "Personally, I'm an agnostic," Roth saidFor a time Goldstein stared at his hands, and then he smiled sadlyThe lines deepened about his mouth, and he had a sarcastic indrawn look on his lips"When the time comes," he said solemnly, "they won't ask you what kind of Jew you are
    "I think you worry too much about those things," Roth saidWhy was it, he asked himself, that so many Jews were filled with all kinds of old wives' tales? His parents at least were modern, but Goldstein was like an old grandfather full of mutterings and curses, certain he would die a violent death"The Jews worry too much about themselves," Roth saidHe rubbed his long sad noseGoldstein was an odd fellow, he told himself; he was enthusiastic about almost everything to the point of being a moron, and yet just start talking about politics or economics or about anything that was current affairs, and like all Jews he would turn the conversation to the same topic
    "If we don't worry," Goldstein said bitterly, "no one else will
    Roth was irritatedJust because he was a Jew too, they always assumed he felt the same way about thingsIt made him feel a little frustratedNo doubt some of his bad luck had come because he was one, but that was unfair; it wasn't as if he took an interest, it was just an accident of birth"Well, let's stop talking about it," he said
    They sat watching the final brilliant striations of the sunsetAfter a time, Goldstein looked at his watch and squinted at the sun, which was almost entirely below the horizon"It's two minutes later than last night," he told Roth, "I like to keep track of things like that
    "I had a friend once," Roth said, "who used to work at the weather bureau in New York
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    3:10 pm
    @@@@@He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he
    @@@@@He will make you happy, Fanny; I know he will make you
    happy; but you will make him everything
    “I would not engage in such a charge,” cried Fanny, in a shrinking
    accent; “in such an office of high responsibility!”
    “As usual, believing yourself unequal to anything! fancying everything
    too much for you! Well, though I may not be able to persuade
    you into different feelings, you will be persuaded into them, I trust
    I confess myself sincerely anxious that you mayI have no common
    interest in Crawford’s well-doingNext to your happiness, Fanny,
    his has the first claim on meYou are aware of my having no common
    interest in Crawford
    Fanny was too well aware of it to have anything to say; and they
    walked on together some fifty yards in mutual silence and abstraction
    Edmund first began again—
    “I was very much pleased by her manner of speaking of it yesterday,
    particularly pleased, because I had not depended upon her seeing
    everything in so just a lightI knew she was very fond of you;
    but yet I was afraid of her not estimating your worth to her brother
    quite as it deserved, and of her regretting that he had not rather
    fixed on some woman of distinction or fortuneI was afraid of the
    bias of those worldly maxims, which she has been too much used to
    305
    Jane Austen
    hearBut it was very differentShe spoke of you, Fanny, just as she
    oughtShe desires the connexion as warmly as your uncle or myself
    We had a long talk about itI should not have mentioned the subject,
    though very anxious to know her sentiments; but I had not
    been in the room five minutes before she began introducing it with
    all that openness of heart, and sweet peculiarity of manner, that spirit
    and ingenuousness which are so much a part of herselfGrant
    laughed at her for her rapidityGrant in the room, then?”
    “Yes, when I reached the house I found the two sisters together by
    themselves; and when once we had begun, we had not done with
    you, Fanny, till Crawford and Dr
    “It is above a week since I saw Miss Crawford
    “Yes, she laments it; yet owns it may have been bestYou will see
    her, however, before she goesShe is very angry with you, Fanny;
    you must be prepared for thatShe calls herself very angry, but you
    can imagine her angerIt is the regret and disappointment of a sister,
    who thinks her brother has a right to everything he may wish
    for, at the first momentShe is hurt, as you would be for William;
    but she loves and esteems you with all her heart
    “I knew she would be very angry with me
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    3:11 pm
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    “Thinking about knocking, I mean
    “What’s on your mind,” asked the celebrated attorney as if he doubted his wife had one
    “Please don’t be clever with me
    “What is it, Edith?”
    “Where were you last night?”
    Gates arched his brows in mock surprise“My God, are you suspicious? I told you where I wasIn conference with someone I knew years ago, someone I did not quilted chanel bag care to have at my
    houseIf, at your age, you want confirmation, call the Ritz
    Edith Gates was silent for a moment; she simply looked at her husband“My dear,” she said, “I
    don’t give a damn if you had an assignation with the most voluptuous whore in the Combat Zone
    Somebody would probably have to give her a few drinks to restore her confidence
    “In that dior handbags department you’re not exactly a stud, bastard
    “Is there a point to this colloquy?”
    “I think soAbout an hour ago, just before you came home from your office, a man was at the
    doorDenise was doing the silver, so I answered itI must say he looked impressive; his clothes
    were terribly expensive and his car was a black Porsche—”
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    90
    “And?” broke in Gates, lurching forward in the chair, his eyes suddenly wide, rigid
    “He said to tell you that le grand professeur owed him twenty thousand dollars and ‘he’ wasn’t
    where he was supposed to be last night, which I assumed was the RitzOh, Christ, he doesn’t understandWhat did you say?”
    “I didn’t like his language or his attitudeI told cartier watch santos him I hadn’t the vaguest idea where you were
    He knew I was lying, but there wasn’t anything he could doLying’s something he knows about
    “I can’t imagine that twenty thousand is such a problem for you—”
    “It’s not the money, it’s the method of payment
    “For what?”
    “Nothing
    “I believe that’s what you call a contradiction, Randy
    “Shut up!”
    The telephone chanel silver ran
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    3:14 pm
    @@@@@Fenton tugged the bell pull, took a chair
    @@@@@Fenton
    tugged the bell pull, took a chair close to hers"I'll your cup if you
    don't mindIt will take a week for another to _ hereSo there!" Scarlett blurtedThen she burst laughing
    "I haven't said 'so there' in twenty yearsI'm surpr I didn't stick
    out my tongue, tooYou're a very irritating Milord
    "May I have some coffee?"
    "The pot's empty Fenton looked a little less
    overbearing when he laughed as did thenScarlett visited her cousin
    Molly that afternoon, throwing that socially ambitious creature into
    such a frenzy of gentility that Scarlett's oflhand questions about the
    Earl of Fenton were barely noticedThe visit was very shortMolly
    didn't know anything at all, save that the Earl's decision to spend
    some time at his adamstown estate had shocked his servants and his
    agent
    They kept the house and stables ready at all times, just in case he
    might choose to come there, but this was the first time in nearly five
    years that he had arrivedThe staff were now all preparing for a
    house party, said MollyThere had been forty guests when the Earl
    last came, all with servants of their own, and horsesThe Earl's
    hounds and their attendants had come, tooThere had been two
    weeks of
    hunting, and a hunt BallAt Daniel's cottage, the O'hara men
    commented on the Earl's arrival with bitter humorFenton had picked
    his time badly, they saidThe fields were too dry and hard to be
    ruined by the hunters, like last timeThe drought had been there
    before him and his friendsScarlett returned to Ballyhara no wiser
    than she'd left itFenton had said nothing to her about a hunt, or
    about a house partyIf he gave one, and she wasn't invited, it would
    be a terrible slap in the fa
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    3:06 pm
    @@@@@Middle of a cornfield or something “Where
    @@@@@Middle of a cornfield or something
    “Where did you sleep last night?” he asked, his eyes surprisingly sharp under his half-closed
    lids
    “Why?”
    “I can sleep there now, and you can be inconspicuous beside me
    We were just murmuring, barely over a whisper nowNo one paid us any attention
    “You can't watch me every second
    “Wanna bet?”
    I shrugged, giving up“I was back at the… the holeWhere I was kept in the beginning
    Ian frowned; he didn't like thatBut he got up and led the way back to the storage corridorThe
    main plaza was busy again now, full of people moving around the garden, all of them grave,
    their eyes on their feet
    When we were alone in the black tunnel, I tried to reason with him again
    “Ian, what's the point of this? Won't it hurt Jamie more, the longer I'm alive? In the end,
    wouldn't it be better for him if –”
    “Don't think like that, WandaYour death is not an inevitability
    “I don't think you're an animal,” I said quietlyI didn't say that as an accusation, thoughI wouldn't blame you if you did
    That was the end of our conversation; that was the moment we both saw the pale blue light
    reflecting dimly from around the next turn in the tunnel
    He pressed my shoulder down gently, trying to stick me where I stoodThen he strode forward,
    making no attempt to hide the sound of his footstepsHe disappeared around the corner
    “Jared?” I heard him say, feigning surprise
    My heart felt heavy in my chest; the sensation was more pain than fear
    “I know it's with you,” Jared answere
    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    3:04 pm
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    "What the hell do you guys mean coming down the road with your lights on?" he shoutedHe saw the General and classic chanel bag blinked
    "It's all right, sonYou're right, it's bad business, breaking one of my own orders The General smiled, and the soldier grinned backThe jeep turned off the road into the lane which led to the bivouac of headquarters batteryEverything was dark in the area, and the General paused for a moment to orient himself"The gold gucci blackout tent is over there," he said, pointing, and the three officers set off and walked through the darkness, stumbling over the roots and shrubs of the imperfectly cleared groundThe night was very black with a tense quality about it that kept the officers from saying anythingThey passed only one man in the fifty gucci replica yards to the blackout tent
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    The two men sprang to their feet"Sir?" the Captain said
    The General sniffedThe air was extremely moist and foulAlready a few drops of sweat were forming on his forehead and back"Where's Colonel McLeod?" he asked
    "I'll get him, sir
    "No, wait a minute," the General black and white bags sai
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    3:09 pm
    @@@@@Fanny answered for their having breakfasted
    @@@@@Fanny answered for their having breakfasted and
    being quite ready in half an hourHe had already ate, and declined
    staying for their mealHe would walk round the ramparts, and join
    them with the carriageHe was gone again; glad to get away even
    from Fanny
    He looked very ill; evidently suffering under violent emotions,
    which he was determined to suppressShe knew it must be so, but it
    was terrible to her
    The carriage came; and he entered the house again at the same
    moment, just in time to spend a few minutes with the family, and
    be a witness—but that he saw nothing—of the tranquil manner in
    which the daughters were parted with, and just in time to prevent
    their sitting down to the breakfast-table, which, by dint of much
    unusual activity, was quite and completely ready as the carriage drove
    from the doorFanny’s last meal in her father’s house was in character
    with her first: she was dismissed from it as hospitably as she had
    been welcomed
    How her heart swelled with joy and gratitude as she passed the
    barriers of Portsmouth, and how Susan’s face wore its broadest smiles,
    may be easily conceivedSitting forwards, however, and screened by
    her bonnet, those smiles were unseen
    The journey was likely to be a silent oneEdmund’s deep sighs
    often reached FannyHad he been alone with her, his heart must
    have opened in spite of every resolution; but Susan’s presence drove
    him quite into himself, and his attempts to talk on indifferent subjects
    could never be long supported
    Fanny watched him with never-failing solicitude, and sometimes
    catching his eye, revived an affectionate smile, which comforted
    her; but the first day’s journey passed without her hearing a word
    from him on the subjects that were weighing him downThe next
    morning produced a little moreJust before their setting out from
    Oxford, while Susan was stationed at a window, in eager observation
    of the departure of a large family from the inn, the other two
    were standing by the fire; and Edmund, particularly struck by the
    alteration in Fanny’s looks, and from his ignorance of the daily evils
    391
    Jane Austen
    of her father’s house, attributing an undue share of the change, attributing
    all to the recent event, took her hand, and said in a low,
    but very expressive tone, “No wonder—you must feel it—you must
    sufferHow a man who had once loved, could desert you! But yours—
    your regard was new compared with——Fanny, think of me!”
    The first division of their journey occupied a long day, and brought
    them, almost knocked up, to Oxford; but the second was over at a
    much earlier hourThey were in the environs of Mansfield long
    before the usual dinner-time, and as they approached the beloved
    place, the hearts of both sisters sank a littleFanny began to dread
    the meeting with her aunts and Tom, under so dreadful a humiliation;
    and Susan to feel with some anxiety, that all her best manners,
    all her lately acquired knowledge of what was practised here, was on
    the point of being called into actionVisions of good and ill breeding,
    of old vulgarisms and new gentilities, were before her; and she
    was meditating much upon silver forks, napkins, and finger-glasses
    Fanny had been everywhere awake to the difference of the country
    since February; but when they entered the Park her perceptions and
    her pleasures were of the keenest sortIt was three months, full three
    months, since her quitting it, and the change was from winter to
    summerHer eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the
    freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that
    delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and
    when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains
    for the imaginationHer enjoyment, however, was for herself alone
    Edmund could not share i
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    3:14 pm
    @@@@@ Bourne leaped up from the underbrush,
    @@@@@
    Bourne leaped up from the underbrush, yelling in full view as he lunged to his right, at the last
    half second plunging his foot into the soft dirt and pivoting, lowering his body and diving to his
    left“Head for the cabin!” he roaredAnd he got his answerTwo more spits, two more cracks in
    the air, the bullets digging up the earth to his rightThe killer was good; perhaps not an expert but
    good enough57 held six shells; five had been fired, but there had been sufficient time to
    reload the emptied cylinderAnother strategy—quickly!
    Suddenly another figure appeared, a man running up the road toward the rear of Flannagan’s
    cabinHe was in the open—he could be killed!
    “Over here, you bastard!” screamed Jason, jumping up and firing his automatic blindly into the
    shrubbery by the houseAnd then he got another answer, a welcome oneThere was a single spit, a
    single crack in the air and then no moreThe killer had not reloaded! Perhaps he had no more
    shells—whatever, the primary target was now on the high groundBourne raced out of the bushes
    and across the lawn through the opposing light of the flares; the dogs were now really aroused, the
    yelps and throated growls of attack becoming louderThe killer ran out of the shrubbery and into
    the road, racing through shadows toward the front gatesJason had the bastard, he knew itThe
    gates were closed, the Medusan was corneredBourne roared: “There’s no way out, Snake Lady!
    Make it easy on yourself—”
    A spit, a crackThe man had reloaded while running! Jason fired; the man fell in the roadAnd
    as he did so, the intermittent silence of the night was ripped open by the sound of a powerful,
    racing engine, the vehicle in question speeding up the outside road, its flashing red and blue lights
    signifying the policeThe police! The alarm must have been wired into the Manassas headquarters,
    a fact that had never occurred to Bourne; he had assumed that such a measure was impossible
    where Medusa was concernedIt wasn’t logical; the security was internal; no external force could
    be permitted for Snake LadyThere was too much to learn, too much that had to be kept secret—a
    cemetery!
    The killer writhed in the road, rolling over and over toward the bordering pine treesThere was
    something clutched in his handJason approached him as two police officers got out of the patrol
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    136
    car beyond the gateHe lashed his foot out, kicking the man’s body, releasing whatever it was in
    his grip and reaching down to pick it upIt was a leather-bound book, one of a set, like a volume of
    Dickens or Thackeray, the embossed letters in gold, more for display than for readin
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
    3:14 pm
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    a
    lot - noIse"All right, honey, I'm coming The wise woman looked no
    older, no different from the time Scarlett had seen herI'd even be
    willing to bet those are same shawls she was wearing, Scarlett
    thought
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    shelf, raking the a cient-smelling burning peat into a mound of glowing
    embers for kettleShe was very much at home"I'll fill the kettle
    at the she said as she carried it outsideGrainne watched her
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    right of it"She likes to
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    them
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    from the town, Grainne said placidly, hunted through woods for Dara,
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    Only the biggest ever came near enough to the stones they carried
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    3:06 pm
    @@@@@Guilt and fear and heartbreakWhy had I
    @@@@@Guilt and fear and heartbreakWhy had I come?
    Because you do belong here, oddly enough,Melanie whisperedShe was very aware of the
    warmth of Ian's and Jamie's hands, wrapped around and twined with minehere else have you
    ever had this?
    Nowhere,I confessed, feeling only more depressedut it doesn't make me belong
    We're a package deal, Wanda
    As if I needed reminding
    I was a little surprised to hear her so clearlyShe'd been quiet the last two days, waiting,
    anxious, hoping to see Jared againOf course, I'd been similarly occupied
    Maybe he's with WalterMaybe that's where he's been,Melanie thought hopefully
    That's not why we're going to see Walterer tone was repentant, but I realized that Walter did not mean as much to
    her as he did to meNaturally, she was sad that he was dying, but she had accepted that
    outcome from the beginningI, on the other hand, could not bring myself to accept it, even now
    Walter was my friend, not hersI was the one he'd defended
    One of those dim blue lights greeted us as we approached the hospital wing(I knew now that
    the lanterns were solar powered, left in sunny corners during the day to charge We all moved
    more quietly, slowing at the same time without having to discuss itIn the darkness, with the odd shadows thrown by the weak glow, it seemed
    only more forbiddingThere was a new smell–the room reeked of slow decay and stinging
    alcohol and bile
    Two of the cots were occupiedDoc's feet hung over the edge of one; I recognized his light
    sno
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
    3:04 pm
    @@@@@ Yet it was hopelessWith almost frightening
    @@@@@
    Yet it was hopelessWith almost frightening skill, Hearn felt himself being harassed, then threatened, then strangled by the advance of the General's pawnsHearn had been on his college chess team, and at different periods in his life he had been tremendously interested in the gameHe was a good enough player to realize how very good the General was, good enough to understand something of a man's nature by the style in which he played, and the General had been brilliant in his conception, and coldly efficient in extracting every possible advantage from the slight superiority he had had at the beginningHearn conceded on the twenty-fifth move after losing a knight and a pawn in exchange for two pawns, and sat back in his chair fatiguedThe game had caught him, piqued his interest, and he felt a sullen desire to play again
    "You're not bad," the General said
    "I'm fair," Hearn mutteredame was over, he was aware once more of the jungle sounds outside the tent
    The General was putting the pieces back in the box, seeming to cherish each one with his fingertips before placing it in its green plush container"This is really my game, RobertIf I have a single passion, it's chess
    What did the General want of him? Hearn felt suddenly badgered; their discussion, this game, seemed to follow out of some inexorable want behind the well-groomed and unresponsive features of the GeneralAn inexplicable mood caught Hearn, and his sense of oppression returned, magnified a littleThe air in the tent seemed heavier somehow
    "Chess," Cummings stated, "is inexhaustibleWhat a concentration of life it is really
    Hearn's sullenness was increasing"I don't think so," he said, listening to the accents of his own clear sharp voice with something like distaste"The thing about chess that used to intrigue me, and ended by being just boring, is that there's nothing remotely like it in life
    "Just what do you think warfare is essentially?"
    They were off againHearn wanted to avoid a discussion this time, he was weary of being maneuvered by the GeneralFor an instant he felt like striking the General, seeing the gray hair suddenly messed, the General's mouth leaking bloodThe impulse was powerful and momentaryWhen it left, he felt merely badgered aga
    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
    3:16 pm
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    Eleanor loved her, she'd make Rhett come home, and they'd all live
    happily together forever and everScarlett half-dozed in the
    deep-cushioned chair, lulled by the soft reminiscences of a gentler
    timeWhen the chloe paddington disturbance erupted in the hall beyond the door, she
    was jerked back to confused consciousnessFor a moment she didn't
    know where she was or how she had gotten there, and she blinked,
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    Rhett, not unless he'd shaved off hismustacheThe big man who
    wasn't
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    sister,"
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    Eleanor"I tried to stop him," she cried, "but he was in one of those
    moods-I couldn't get him to listen, Miss Eleanor"Hush, Margaret," she said with quiet urgency"Ross, I'm waiting
    for a proper greeting Her clutch prada voice was unusually loud, the words very
    distinctScarlett's mind was clear nowSo this was Rhett's
    brother
    And drunk, too, by the look of himWell, she'd seen drunk men
    before,
    they were no special noveltyShe stood, smiled at Ross, her dimple
    flickering"I declare, Miss Eleanor, how could one lady be so lucky
    as to have two Tiffany Earrings sons, each one handsomer than the other? Rhett
    never
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    Ross staggered towards herHis eyes raked her body, then fastened
    on
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    "So this is Scarlett," he said thickly"I might have known Rhett would
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    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    3:11 pm
    @@@@@“Admit no one, stay away from the windows
    @@@@@“Admit no one, stay away from the windows and take all
    precautionsWhat do you mean, the windows? He’ll need time to find out where we are to
    question the maids, the stewards
    “Forgive me, old friend,” interrupted Krupkin, “but an angelic priest inquiring at the desk about
    two Americans, one with a pronounced limp, during the early morning rush in the lobby?”
    “Good point, even if you’re paranoid
    “You’re on a high floor, and directly across the Marx Prospekt is the roof of an office building
    “You also think pretty fast
    “Certainly faster than that fool in DzerzhinskyI would have reached you long before now, but
    my commissar Kartoshki over there didn’t call me until two minutes ago
    “I’ll wake up Bourne
    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    387
    “Be careful
    Conklin did not hear the Soviet’s final admonitionInstead, he swiftly replaced the telephone
    and pulled on his boot, carelessly lashing the Velcro straps around his calfHe then opened the
    bedside table drawer and took out the Graz Burya automatic, a specially designed KGB weapon
    with three clips of ammunitionThe Graz, as it was commonly known, was unique insofar as it was
    the only automatic known that would accept a silencerThe cylindrical instrument had rolled to the
    front of the drawer; he removed it and spun it into the short barrelUnsteadily, he got into his
    trousers, shoved the weapon into his belt and crossed to the doorHe opened it and limped out only
    to find Jason, fully dressed, standing in front of a window in the ornate Victorian sitting room
    “That had to be Krupkin,” said BourneGet away from the window
    “Carlos?” Bourne instantly stepped back and turned to Alex“He knows we’re in Moscow?” he
    askedThen added, “He knows where we are?”
    “The odds are yes to both questions In short concise statements, Conklin related Krupkin’s
    information“Does all this tell you something?” asked Alex when he had finished
    “He’s blown apart,” answered Jason quietly
    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
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    "These pictures are nice, but yours are much
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    Jack handed Juanita another shrimp"Will you
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    "Of course
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    "He did?" I felt a tickle of concern"Why?"
    "Well, he spent most of the day getting down here,
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    596
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    Saturday, December 4th, 2010
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