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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    6:48 pm
    @@@@@Oh you crazy ChristianMy right arm
    @@@@@Oh you crazy ChristianMy right arm was
    still itching, a low, steady skin-crawl like
    prickly heatI scratched at it, scratched through
    it, and got my ribs instead for the ten thousandth
    timeThis picture was also in a protective seethrough
    envelopeI slid it out, glanced over my
    shoulder - nervous as a burglar on his first job -
    at the partially open door of the room where Ilse
    was sleeping, then turned the picture over
    I love you, Punkin!
    "Smiley"
    164
    Could I trust a suitor who called my daughter
    Punkin and signed himself Smiley? I didn't think
    soIt might not be fair, but no - I didn't think
    soNevertheless, I had found what I was looking
    forI turned the picture over
    again, closed my eyes, and pretended I was
    touching their Kodachrome images with my right
    handAlthough pretending wasn't what it felt like;
    I suppose I don't have to tell you that by now
    After some passage of time - I don't know exactly
    how long - I returned the picture to its plastic
    sleeve and submerged her wallet beneath the
    tissues and cosmetics to approximately the same
    depth at which I had found itThen I put her
    purse back on the coffee table and went into my
    bedroom to get Reba the Anger-Management DollI
    limped upstairs to Little Pink with her clamped
    between my stump and my sideI think I remember
    saying "I'm going to make you into Monica Seles"
    when I set Reba down in front of the window, but
    it could as easily have been Monica Goldstein;
    when it comes to memory, we all stack the deck
    The gospel according to Wireman
    165
    I'm clearer than I want to be about most of what
    happened on Duma, but that particular afternoon
    seems very vague to meI know that I fell into a
    frenzy of drawing, and that the maddening itch in
    my nonexistent right arm disappeared completely
    while I was working; I do not know but am almost
    sure that the reddish haze which always hung over
    my vision in those days, growing thicker when I
    was tired, disappeared for awhile
    I don't know how long I was in that stateI think
    quite awhileLong enough so I was both exhausted
    and famished when I was finished
    I went back downstairs and gobbled lunchmeat by
    the fridge's frosty glowI didn't want to make an
    actual sandwich, because I didn't want Ilse to
    know I'd felt well enough to eatLet her go on
    thinking our problems had been caused by bad
    mayonnaiseThat way we wouldn't have to spend
    time hunting for other explanations
    None of the other explanations I could think of
    were ration
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    6:54 pm
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    I fought the desire to choke him again
    He didn't meet my eyes“Even if there was any way we could let you outside, Wanda… I cheap rolex just
    couldn't trust drugs I don't understandHis system will fight this off
    “We'll go out again, Wanda,” Ian murmured“We'll find somethingWe won't come back until
    we do
    “That's not good enough The tears were pooling in my eyesI looked to the one replica tiffany jewelry person who
    might possibly be in as much pain as I wasYouknow I would never let
    anything hurt JamieYou know I can do this
    He met my gaze for one long momentThen he looked around the room, at every other face
    Jeb, Doc, Kyle, Ian, TrudyOut the louis vuitton tote door at the silent audience whose expressions mirrored
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    My friends mixed in with my enemies, all of them wearing Kyle's faceHe stared at the wallet vuitton next
    row, which I couldn't seeThen he looked down at JamieThere was no sound of breathing in
    the whole room
    “No, Wanda,” he said quietly
    A sigh of relief from the restI fell forward and yanked free of Ian's hands when he tried to pull me black chanel tote back
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    6:55 pm
    @@@@@To hell with it, it's Gallagher's bloody
    @@@@@To hell with it, it's Gallagher's bloody nose, not mine
    The mail began to come in almost daily, and a frightening thing happenedGallagher continued to receive letters from his wifeThe first one came a few days after Father Leary had told him about her death; it had been mailed almost a month beforeWilson collected the letters for the platoon that night from the orderly room, and he debated whether to give it to Gallagher"It's gonna make him feel mighty funny," he said to Croft Croft was curious to see what happened
    Wilson's voice was casual when he gave it to Gallagher"Some mail for ya, boy He felt embarrassed and looked away
    Gallagher's face whitened as he gazed at the letter"That ain't for me," he muttered
    "It's your letter, boy Wilson put an arm on his shoulder, and Gallagher shook it off"You want me to throw it away?" Wilson asked
    Gallagher looked at the date on the envelope"No, give it to me," he blurtedHe walked away a few yards and ripped it openThe words were indistinguishable to him, and he could not read itHoly Mary, Joseph and Jesus, he said to himselfHis eyes were able to focus on a few lines, and their meaning seeped into his mind"I been worrying about you, Roy, you're allways so angrie about everthing, and I pray for your safety every nightI love you so much when I think of the baby, only sometimes I can't beleive that its going to come so soonOnly three weeks now, the doctor said Gallagher folded the letter, and walked around blin
    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    6:56 pm
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    purchases of
    cornmeal, hominy, flour, and riceFinally, she bought butter,
    buttermilk, cream, milk, and eggsCelie's basket was overflowing
    "We'll have to take everything out and repack it," Mrs"I'll carry something," Scarlett offeredShe was chanel wholesale impatient
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    They had stopped so often, the walk through the vegetable and dairy
    sections had taken them more than an hourShe didn't mind meeting
    the
    women who were selling the produce-she wanted to mark them down
    in her
    mind very clearly, because she was sure she'd be dealing with them in
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    things she'd offer to take over some of the shoppingNot the fishy
    things, thoughNot, she discovered, when she
    ate
    themDinner was a revelationThe she-crab soup was a velvety
    blend
    of tastes that made her open her eyes wideShe'd never tasted
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    Of course! Now that she remembered it, Rhett had identified many of
    the
    dishes he ordered for them as one kind of seafood or another
    Scarlett had a second bowl of soup and relished every drop, then did
    full justice to the rest of the generous dinner, including dessert, a
    whipped-cream-topped, crusty nut and fruit confection that cartier pasha watch MrsButler
    identified as Huguenot TorteThat afternoon she had indigestion for
    the first time in her lifeEulalie and Pauline
    upset her"We're on our way to see Carreen," Pauline announced
    when
    they arrived, "and we figured Scarlett would want to go with usI didn't know you'd just be finishing dinner Her
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    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
    6:47 pm
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    “Again?” asked the judge
    “What?”
    “You forgetHe thinks you’re already dead—thanks to me
    “I have cases coming up, a congressional hearing next weekHe’ll know I’m alive!”
    “Not if you don’t show up
    “I have to! My clients expect—”
    “Then I agree,” interrupted PrefontaineSorry about that, Randy
    “What am I going to do?”
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
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    “Anything!”
    “How do you reach him?”
    “I have a telephone number!” Gates fumbled for his wallet, yanking it out of his pocket and with
    trembling fingers digging into a recess“Only four people alive have it!”
    Prefontaine accepted his first $20,000-an-hour fee, instructed Randy to go home, beg Edith’s
    forgiveness, and be prepared to leave Boston tomorrowBrendan had heard of a private treatment
    center in kelly hermes bag Minneapolis, he thought, where the rich sought help incognito; he would refine the details
    in the morning and call him, naturally expecting a second payment for his servicesThe instant a
    shaken Gates left the room, Prefontaine went to the phone and called John StJacques at
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    “John, it’s the judgeDon’t ask me questions, but I have urgent information that could be
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    “His name is Alex Conklin,” interrupted St“Wait a minute, Judge, Marie wrote the
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    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    6:47 pm
    @@@@@ At that he actually shudderedIt
    @@@@@ At that he actually shudderedIt looked
    like the kind that starts out as burlesque and
    ends up being real
    "Everybody keeps trying to get me into a golf
    cart," I said
    "You'll call your wife?"
    "I don't see any other option," I saidYou can tell me all about it
    when I come to look at your picturesThere's a visiting nurse I can call -
    Annmarie Whistler - if the morning works betterAnd thanks for listening to me,
    Wireman
    "Thanks for reading to the boss
    I set off down the beach and had gotten about
    fifty yards before something occurred to meI
    turned back, thinking Wireman would be gone, but
    he was still standing there with his hands in his
    pockets and the wind off the Gulf - increasingly
    chilly - combing back his long graying hair
    "Wireman!"
    275
    "What?"
    "Was Elizabeth ever an artist herself?"
    He said nothing for a long timeThere was only
    the sound of the waves, louder tonight with the
    wind to push themThen he said, "That's an
    interesting question, EdgarIf you were to ask
    her - and I'd advise against it - she'd say no
    But I don't think that's the truth
    "Why not?"
    But he only said, "You'd better get walking,
    muchachoBefore that hip of yours stiffens up
    He gave me a quick seeya wave, turned, and was
    gone back up the boardwalk, chasing his
    lengthening shadow, almost before I was aware he
    was leaving
    I stood where I was a moment or two longer, then
    turned north, set my sights on Big Pink, and
    headed for homeIt was a long trip, and before I
    got there my own absurdly elongated shadow was
    lost in the sea oats, but in the end I made it
    The waves were still building, and under the house
    the murmur of the shells had again become an
    argument
    276
    How to Draw a Picture (IV)
    Start with what you know, then re-invent itArt
    is magic, no argument there, but all art, no
    matter how strange, starts in the humble everyday
    Just don't be surprised when weird flowers sprout
    from common soilNo one
    taught her; she learned for hers
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    6:53 pm
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    “What brings you to Byers?”
    I was always careful to check the map before I left the van, so the town's name would be
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    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    6:58 pm
    @@@@@Only he has learned not to say that out loud
    @@@@@Only he has learned not to say that out loud any longer
    For his thesis he has been given a magna: A Study of the Cosmic Urge in Herman Melville

    He functions easily through the next two years, sees himself consciously, amusedly as The Young Man in New YorkHe is first a reader and then a junior editor at Ellison and Co Harvard, New York Extension, as he terms it, and a room and kitchenette in the East SixtiesOh, I'm just a literary con man, he will say
    I can't tell you how I've slaved over the thing, the lady historical novelist says to himI was so worried about the motivations of Julia, such an elusive bitch, but I think I achieved the effect I hungered for in her, the one who worries me, however, is Randall Clandeborn
    Yes, Miss Helledell, two more of the same, waiterHe lights a cigarette, revolving slowly in the leather arc of their round boothYou were saying, Miss Helledell?
    Do you think Randall comes across?
    Randall Clandeborn, mmm(Now which one was he?) Ay, yes, I think he's successful on the whole, but perhaps you need a little sharper definition on himWe can discuss that when we get back to the office(After the drinks he will have a headache To be frank, Miss Helledell, I'm not really worried about your characters, I know they'll come across
    Do you think so, MrHearn? Your opinion means an awful lot to me
    Oh, yes, it's a very successful job
    And George Andrew Johannesson, how is he?
    Well, to tell you the truth, Miss Helledell, I should prefer to discuss it when we've got the manuscript between usI remember the characters perfectly but I'm awfully bad on namesIt's one of my faults for which you'll have to forgive me
    And there is always the game of mentally plucking, one by one, all the feathers in her hat
    Or the young serious novelist, not quite good enough, he has decidedGodfrey, I think you've got a damn good book there and it's a damn shame that publishing exigencies being what they are, this is not quite the season, perhaps in thirty-six, it would have been a classic if it had come out in the twenties, George, for example, liked it a hell of a lot
    Yeah, I understand, but still it seems to me you could take a chance, after all, that crap you put out, I understand, bread and butter, but a serious book is a publisher's only excuse for bein
    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
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    foreman who doesn't cheat me much, a couple of dozen laborers who
    work
    almost as much as they loal, and respectabilityI can spend my time
    and money and sweat on what I care about, and right now, that's
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    rich he was, he could stand to get richerThere was no such ouIr
    and got a decent day's work out of
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    laborers, he could double that "Forgive me for interrupting your
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    he
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    you
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
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    “The Magdalen mission ? You mean those women on the bicycles were actually nuns?”
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    “Jesus,” mumbled Bourne
    “He’s frequently on their lipsDo you see now the hopelessness of my position?”
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    Robert Ludlum ?? THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
    281
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    “How long has it been since you rendered me unconscious?”
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    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
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    rain
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    She cast a glance at the table, then looked at the
    window when an especially strong gust of wind
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    372
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    She said, "He never should have got that thing,
    but he didn't know
    "What thing?"
    "What thing," she agreed, and noddedI want to get out of here before the big
    boy comes
    After that we both fake cartier lapsed into silenceElizabeth
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    wheelchair
    For something to do, I got out of my own chair,
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    There had to be at least a hundred figures on the
    polished length of oakAmong
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    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    10:04 pm
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    Abruptly the pores of his body opened, discharged their perspirationHe shivered in the cold mountain air, wrestling against the same anxiety he had suffered on the troopship the hours before they had invaded AnopopeiAgainst his will he stared up at the tessellated stones and jungle of the upper ridges, closed his eyes and saw the ramp of the landing boat going downHis body tensed, waiting for the machine-gun fireNothing happened and he opened his eyes, racked by an acute frustrationSomething had to happen
    If only he could see a snapshot of his kid, Gallagher thought"It's a goddam trap goin' up this mountain," he muttered
    Gallagher extended his arm, touched Martinez's elbow for a moment"Why don't we go back?" he asked
    "It's fuggin suicideWhat are we, a bunch of goddam mountain goats?" He rubbed the coarse itching hairs of his beard"Listen, we'll all get knocked off
    Martinez wriggled his toes inside his boots, extracting a bleak satisfaction
    "You wanta get your fuggin head blown off?"
    "No He fingered the little tobacco pouch in his pocket where he kept the gold teeth he had stolen from the cadaverPerhaps he should throw them awayBut they were so pretty, so valuableMartinez wavered, then left them thereHe was struggling against the conviction that they would be an effective sacrifice
    "We ain't got a fuggin chance Gallagher's voice shook, and as if he were a sounding board, Martinez resonated t
    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    6:55 pm
    @@@@@I'll feel the baking heat of Georgia sun one
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    decided, I'm entitled to thatI miss it sometimes so terriblyBut,
    somehow, Tara's more like a dream than a memoryIt belongs in the
    past, like the Scarlett I used to beThat life and that person don't
    have anything to do with me any moreCat's
    Tara
    is the Irish TaraI'm The O'Hara of Ballyhara
    I'll keep my shares of Tara for Wade and Ella's inheritance, but I'll
    sell everything in Atlanta and cut those tiesBallyhara's my home
    nowOur roots go deep here, Cat's and mine and Pa'sI'll take some
    O 'Hara land with me when I go, some earth to mix into the Georgia
    clay
    of Gerald O'Hara's grave
    Her mind touched briefly on the business she had to deal withWhat she must concentrate on was the best way to
    tell
    Wade and Ella about their wonderful new homeThey wouldn't believe
    she wanted them-why should they? In truth she never had
    Until she discovered what it felt like to love a child, to be a real
    motherIt's going to be hard, Scarlett told herself many times, but I
    can do itI can make up for the pastI've got so much love in me
    that it just spills overI want to give some to my son and my
    daughterThey might not like Ireland at first, it's so different, but
    once we go to Market Day a couple of times, and the races, and I buy
    them their own ponies Ella should look darling in skirts and
    petticoats, tooAll little girls love to dress up They'll have
    millions of cousins, with all the O 'Haras around, and the children in
    Ballyhara town to play with You cannot leave until after Easter,
    Scarlett darling," said Colum"There's a ceremony on Good Friday
    that
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    Friday, December 17th, 2010
    6:55 pm
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    At the same time, I yearned to see the boy's face for myselfI wanted to be sure that he was
    really here, really safe–that they were feeding him and caring for him the way Melanie never
    could againThe way I, mother to no one, wanted to care for himDid he have someone to sing
    to him at night? To tell him stories? Would this new, angry Jared think of little things like that?
    Did he have someone to curl up against when he was frightened?
    Do you think they will tell him that I'm here?Melanie asked
    Would that help or hurt him?I asked back
    Her thought was a whisper I wish I could tell him that I kept my promise shook my head, amazedo one can say that you didn't come back, just like
    alwaysI couldn't tell if she meant for my words now, or if she
    meant the bigger picture, bringing her here
    I was suddenly exhausted, and I could feel that she was, tooNow that my stomach had settled
    a bit and felt almost halfway full, the rest of my pains were not sharp enough to keep me awake
    I hesitated before moving, afraid to make any noise, but my body wanted to uncurl and stretch
    outI did so as silently as I could, trying to find a piece of the bubble long enough for me
    Finally, I had to stick my feet almost out the round openingI didn't like doing it, worried that
    Jared would hear the movement close to him and think I was trying to escape, but he didn't
    react in any wayI pillowed the good side of my face against my arm, tried to ignore the way the
    curve of the floor cramped my spine, and closed my eyes
    I think I slept, but if I did, it wasn't deeplyThe sound of footsteps was still very far away when
    I came fully awake
    This time I opened my eyes at onceNothing had changed–I still could see the dull blue light
    through the round hole; I still could not see if Jared was outside itSomeone was coming this
    way–it was easy to hear that the footsteps were coming closerI pulled my legs away from the
    opening, moving as quietly as I could, and curled up against the back wall againI would have
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    Mansfield Park
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    “But they are passed over,” said Fanny“I have been watching
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    to her, with superior tone and expression; and though pleased
    with it herself, and glad to like whatever was liked by him, she was
    more sincerely impatient to go away at the conclusion of it than she
    had been before; and on this being evident, she was so kindly asked
    to call again, to take them in her walk whenever she could, to come
    and hear more of the harp, that she felt it necessary to be done, if no
    objection arose at home
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    them within the first fortnight after the Miss Bertrams’ going
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    fascination: she could not be easy without going, and yet it was
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    of obligation for being sought after now when nobody else was to
    be had; and deriving no higher pleasure from her conversation than
    occasional amusement, and that often at the expense of her judgment,
    when it was raised by pleasantry on people or subjects which
    she wished to be respectedShe went, however, and they sauntered
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    Jane Austen
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    weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing
    sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively
    unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some
    tender ejaculation of Fanny’s on the sweets of so clutch prada protracted an autumn,
    they were forced, by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking
    down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk
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    they were thus sitting together one day; “every time I come into this
    shrubbery I am more struck with its growth and beautyThree years
    ago, this was nothing but a rough hedgerow along the upper side of
    the field, never thought of as anything, or capable of becoming anything;
    and now it is converted into a walk, and it would be difficult
    to say whether most valuable as a convenience or an ornament; and
    perhaps, in another three years, we may be forgetting—almost forgetting
    what it was beforeHow wonderful, how very wonderful
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    following the latter train of thought, she soon afterwards added: “If
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    of memory, than in any other of our intelligencesThe memory
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    bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond
    control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of
    recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out
    Miss Crawford, untouched and inattentive, had nothing to say;
    and Fanny, perceiving it, brought back her own mind to what she
    thought must interest
    “It may seem impertinent in me to praise, but I must admire the
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    in the plan of the walk! Not too much attempted!”
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    “Anyway, Jared needs a break from thisNot from you, kid,” he added quickly, “but from the
    situationHe'll gain some perspective while he's away
    I wondered how he seemed to know exactly which words and phrases would cut at meAnd,
    more than that, why should Jeb care if his words hurt me, or even if my back was aching and
    throbbing? His kindness toward me was frightening in its own way because it was
    incomprehensibleAt least Jared's actions made senseKyle's and Ian's murder attempts, the
    doctor's cheerful eagerness to hurt me–these behaviors also were logicalWhat
    did Jeb want from me?
    “Don't look so glum,” Jeb urged“There's a bright side to thisJared was being real pigheaded
    about you, and now that he's temporarily out of the picture, it's bound to make things more
    comfortable
    My eyebrows furrowed as I tried to decide what he meant
    “For example,” he went on“This space here we usually use for storageNow, when Jared and
    the guys get back, we're going to need someplace to put all the stuff they bring home with them
    So we might as well find a new place for you nowSomething a little bigger, maybe? Something
    with a bed?” He smiled again as he dangled the carrot in front of me
    I waited for him to snatch it away, to tell me he was joking
    Instead, his eyes–the color of faded blue jeans–became very, very gentleSomething about the
    expression in them brought the lump back to my throat
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