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    Monday, January 3rd, 2011
    8:27 am
    @@@@@“I'm going to go talk to Jeb, get things
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    going to go talk to Jeb, get things ready
    He reached for a bottle on the tableI was sure the souls had something better
    to useI would have to try to find it for Doc, before I was gone
    “Who knows about this?”
    “Still just Jeb, Aaron, and BrandtThey all want to watch
    This didn't surprise me; Aaron and Brandt would be suspicious“Don't tell anyone else
    Doc nodded, then he disappeared into the black corridor
    I went to sit against the wall, as far from the prepared cot as I could getI'd have my turn on
    top of it all too soon
    Trying to think of something besides that grim fact, I realized that I hadn't heard from Melanie
    since… When was the last time she'd spoken to me? When I'd made the deal with Doc? I was
    belatedly surprised that the sleeping arrangements by the jeep today had not elicited a reaction
    from her
    It wasn't like before, so I didn't panicI could definitely feel her there in my head, but she
    was… ignoring me? What was she doing?
    Mel? What's going on?
    No answer
    Are you mad at me? I'm sorry about before, by the jeepI didn'tdoanything, you know, so it's
    not really fair –
    She interrupted me, exasperated
    Why won't you talk to me?
    No answer
    I pushed a little harder, hoping to pick up the direction of her thoughtsShe tried to keep me
    out, to put the wall in place, but it was too weak from disuse
    I tried to keep my mental tone evenave you lost your mind?
    In a manner of speaking,she teased halfheartedly
    You think that if you can make yourself disappear, that will stop me?
    What else can I do to stop you? If you've got a better idea, please share
    I don't get it, MelanieDon't youwantthem back? Don't you want to be with Jared again? With
    Jamie?
    She writhed, fighting the obviousness of the answeres, but… I can't… She took a moment to
    steady hersel
    Sunday, January 2nd, 2011
    8:27 am
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    Hearn stretched, looked at his watch"What time do you get relieved, Stacey?" he asked
    Hearn was on until threeHe sighed, stretched his arms, and slumped down in his chairThere was a prada logo magazine in his lap, but he had scanned through it, and a little bored, he tossed it onto a tableAfter a moment or two, he took a letter from his breast pocket, and read it again slowlyIt was from a college friend

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    And there was dior saddle more in the same tenorHearn finished the letter and shruggedBailey had always been an optimistA sound Marxian optimist
    Only that was all bullshitThere would be the witch-hunt after the war all right, but it would hardly be a frightened witch-huntWhat was it Cummings had said? America's energy had become kinetic and it would not be reversedCummings wasn't frightened, not in that dior handbags s
    Saturday, January 1st, 2011
    8:30 am
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    Rosemary's turned into a monsterShe turned hurriedly to the
    window
    againIt was beginning to get darkWhat was happening? She
    couldn't see a thingOnly dark shapes on the dark groundWas Rhett
    one of them?
    She couldn't tellShe put her chanel wholesale ear against the windowpane and
    strained
    to hearThe only sound was a muffled whimpering from PansyIf I
    don't do something I'll go mad, she thought, and she began to pace
    back
    and forth across the small room"Why does a big plantation like this
    have such cramped little handbag dolce gabbana bedrooms?" she complained"You could fit
    two rooms like this into any one of the rooms atTara
    "Do you really want to know? Then sit downThere's a rocker over by
    the other windowYou can rock instead of walking
    I'll light the lamp and I'll tell you all about Dunmore Landing if
    you'd omega quartz like to hear
    "I can't bear to sit still! I'm going down there and find out what's
    going on Scarlett groped in the darkness for the doorknob"If you
    do, he'll never forgive you," said RosemaryScarlett's hand fell to
    her sideThe match striking was as loud as a pistol omega seamaster gmt shotScarlett
    felt the nerves jump under her skinThen she turned, surprised to see
    that Rosemary looked just the same as alwaysShe was in the same
    place, too, sitting on the edge of the bedThe kerosene lamp made
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    Friday, December 31st, 2010
    8:35 am
    @@@@@ “So the Jackal thinks he forms a core of
    @@@@@
    “So the Jackal thinks he forms a core of supporters within our government,” observed Krupkin
    “Despite everything, he still believes he can come backHe is, indeed, an egomaniac but he’s never
    understood the Russian mindHe may temporarily corrupt a few cynical opportunists, but these will
    cover themselves and turn on himNo one looks forward to a stay at the Lubyanka or a Siberian
    gulagThe Jackal’s Potemkin village will burn to the ground
    “All the more reason for him to race to Moscow and put out the brushfires,” said Alex
    “What do you mean?” asked Bourne
    “The burning will start with the exposure of Carlos’s man in Dzerzhinsky Square; he’ll know
    thatThe only way to prevent it is for him to reach Moscow and make a determinationEither his
    informer will elude internal security or the Jackal will have to kill him
    “I forgot,” interrupted Bourne“Something else Santos said most of the Russians on Carlos’s
    payroll spoke FrenchLook for a man high up in the Komitet who speaks French
    Krupkin’s radio again intruded, the two piercing beeps barely muffled by his jacketHe pulled it
    out and spoke“Yes?”
    “I don’t know how or why, comrade,” said the tense voice of Sergei, “but the ambassador’s
    limousine has just arrived at the buildingI swear to you I have no idea what happened!”
    “I do
    “But the embassy flags will be seen by everyone!”
    “Including, I trust, an alert old man in a brown automobileWe’ll be down shortly
    Krupkin turned to the others“The car’s here, gentlemenWhere shall we meet, Domie? And
    when?”
    “Tonight,” replied Lavier“There’s a showing at La Galerie d’Or in the rue de Para
    Thursday, December 30th, 2010
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    "Wireman, you are one cynical mongrel
    479
    He took this for the compliment it sort of wasHe
    nodded and waved it aside magnanimously"I'll
    serve as your lawyerYou're going to pick the
    paintings; Nannuzzi consultsNannuzzi sets the
    show womens rolex watches arrangement; you consultSound about right?"
    "I guess so, yeahIf that's how it's done
    "It's how this is going to be doneAnd, Edgar -
    last but very far from least - you're going to
    call everyone you care for and invite them to kelly bag hermes your
    show
    "But-"
    "Yes," he said, noddingYour shrink,
    your ex, both daughters, this guy Tom Riley, the
    woman who rehabbed you-"
    "Kathi Green," I said, bemused"Wireman, Tom
    won't comeAnd
    Lin's in FranceWith strep, for God's sake
    Wireman took no notice"You tank louis mentioned a lawyer-"
    "William Bozeman the ThirdOh, your mom and dad, of courseYour
    sisters and brothers
    "My parents are dead and I was an only childBut don't
    call him that, Wireman
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    and didn't manage to kill myself, so you better
    not answer that
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    Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
    8:27 am
    @@@@@ He ran right through the big plaza,
    @@@@@
    He ran right through the big plaza, ignoring the surprised and even suspicious facesThere was
    too much that was unfamiliar and uncomfortable going on in the caves right nowThe humans
    here–Violetta, Geoffrey, Andy, Paige, Aaron, Brandt, and more I couldn't see well as we jolted
    past–were skittishIt disturbed them to see Ian running headlong through them, face twisted
    with rage, with me in his arms
    And then they were behind usHe didn't pause until we reached the doors leaning against his
    and Kyle's roomHe kicked the red one out of the way–it hit the stone floor with an echoing
    boom–and dropped me onto the mattress on the floor
    Ian stood above me, his chest heaving with exertion and furyFor a second he turned away and
    put the door back in place with one swift wrenchAnd then he was glowering again
    I took a deep breath and rolled up onto my knees, holding my hands out, palms up, wishing that
    some magic would appear in themSomething I could give him, something I could sayBut my
    hands were empty His eyes blazed–burning brighter than I had ever seen them,
    blue flames“You have to see that… that I can't stay
    “No!”he shouted at me
    I cringed back, and, abruptly, Ian crumpled forward, falling to his knees, falling into meHe
    buried his head in my stomach, and his arms locked around my waistHe was shaking, shaking
    hard, and loud, desperate sobs were breaking out of his chest
    “No, Ian, no,” I beggedThis was so much worse than his anger
    I was crying, too, shaking, too, though that might have been him shaking me
    “I have to, I have to,” I sobbed
    And then we cried wordlessly for a long time
    His tears dried before min
    Monday, December 27th, 2010
    8:28 am
    @@@@@"You're biting off more than you can take,
    @@@@@"You're biting off more than you can take, Stanley
    "What's the matter, you ganging up with Gallagher?"
    Gallagher was frightened again, unwilling to be involvedIn the past weeks he had drawn in upon himself, become passiveHis occasional bursts of rage left him apatheticYet he could not withdraw now; Red was one of his best buddies"Red don't need to gang up with me," he muttered
    "You guys think you're pretty tough 'cause you been around a little longer than me
    "Maybe," Gallagher said
    Stanley knew he had to tell Red off if he was to hold Croft's respectBut he felt incapable of itRed's taunt about combat had lacerated his confidence again; abruptly he was forced to face the knowledge that he was terrified at the thought of itHe took a deep breath"This ain't the time, Red, but wait'll we get back
    "Yeah, send me a letter
    Stanley's mouth tightened but he could think of no answerHe looked at Croft, whose face was impassive"I just wish you guys were in my squad," he said to Red and GallagherThey guffawed at thisHe had wavered between his desire to see a fight and his knowledge that it would be a bad thing for the platoonNow he was contemptuous of Stanley; a noncom had to know how to keep a man in his place, and it had been bungledCroft hawked a little spittle over the side wall of the boat"What's the matter, everybody worked up already?" he said coldlyAimless talk irritated him
    They were all quiet againThe tension between them had collapsed like a piece of moist paper shredding of its own we
    Sunday, December 26th, 2010
    8:27 am
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    There's something admirable about anyone with serious religious
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    of
    Scarlett's siege was dark and cold and rainy"I just can't walk all
    the way to the convent through this downpour," she moaned, "I'll ruin
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    former coachman, EzekielHe had showed up, like a magical genie
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    a bottle, on the two rainy nights they were going out
    All this Charleston pretense is crazy and disgusting, but I'd be glad
    to put up with it today if I could just ride in a nice warm dry
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    school there," said the nun who opened the convent's doorNo one
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    exactly how long the meeting would lastPerhaps one day, or several,
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    Pansy"And get me out some dry clothes Pansy was even more
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    than she wasWith an ostentatious fit of pitiful coughing, she limped
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    She sat in her room brooding until the walls seemed to be closing in on
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    Saturday, December 25th, 2010
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    the swirling winds of death! GunfireAutomatic weapons—two of them; one nearby, one farther
    away—shattering windows, ripping into wood, a piercing screech of pain erupting from the
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    With bags dolce and gabbana both hands Bourne gripped Marie by the waist, heaving her up and propelling her into the
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    Friday, December 24th, 2010
    8:27 am
    @@@@@ She paused, then rushed onShe says a
    @@@@@ She paused,
    then rushed onShe says a person
    can't close the door on the past, she can only
    make amends and go onI understood that, but I
    didn't know how to start making amends to you,
    Eddie
    "Pam, you don't owe me any-"
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    "My therapist says it isn't about what you think,
    it's about what I think That sounded a lot like the old Pam, so
    maybe she'd found the right therapist
    "And then your friend Wireman called and told me
    you needed helpand he sent me those pictures
    I can't wait to see the actual thingsI mean, I
    knew you had some talent, because you used to draw
    those little books for Lin when she was so sick
    that year-"
    "I did?" I remembered Melinda's sick year; she'd
    had one infection after another, culminating in a
    massive bout of diarrhea, probably brought on by
    too many antibiotics, that had landed her in the
    hospital for a weekShe lost ten pounds that
    springIf not for summer vacation - and her own
    grade-A intelligence - she would have needed to
    repeat the second gradeBut I couldn't remember
    drawing any little books
    "Freddy the Fish? Carla the Crab? Donald the Timid
    Deer?"
    Donald the Timid Deer rang a very faint bell, way
    down deep, but
    563
    "Angel thought you should try to get them
    published, don't you remember? But these
    Did you know you could do it?"
    "NoI started thinking something might be there
    when I was at the place on Lake Phalen, but it's
    gone farther than I thought it would I thought
    of Wireman Looks West and the mouthless, noseless
    Candy Brown and thought I'd just uttered the
    understatement of the century
    "Eddie, will you let me do the rest of the
    invitations the way I did the sample? I can
    customize them, make them nice
    "Pa-" Almost Panda again"Pam, I can't ask you to
    do that
    "I'll write them and e-mail them to Mr
    You can check them over before he prints them
    He's quite a jewel, your MrThe two of you really
    ganged up on me
    "We did, didn't we?" She sounded deligh
    Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
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    Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
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    Sunday, December 19th, 2010
    8:30 am
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    Mothers swarmed her private reception room with daughters in tow to
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    Georgia, knows that you're expected to pay back favors," she told
    Charlotte"I won't be obligated to anybody, not that way Her
    goings and comings were reported faithfully and sometimes even
    accurately in the gossip column of the daily f TimeShop owners in
    morning coats came themselves to show her choice items they hoped
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    she had refused to acceptThe Viceroy danced with her twice at the
    State BallAll the guests at her coffees and teas admired her
    portraitScarlett looked at it every morning and every afternoon
    before the first visitors arrivedShe was learning herself
    Charlotte Montague observed the metamorphosis with interestThe
    practiced flirt vanished, replaced by a serene, somewhat amused
    woman
    who had only to turn her smoky green eyes on man, woman, or child
    to
    draw them, mesmerized, to her sideI used to work like a mule to be
    charming, Scarlett thought, now I don't do anything at allShe
    couldn't understand it at all, but she accepted the gift of it with
    simple gratitude"Did you say two hundred people, Charlotte? That's
    what you call a small dance?"
    "RelativelyThere are always five or six hundred at the State and
    Saint Patrick's balls and more than a thousand at the Drawing Rooms
    You certainly already know at least half the people who7l be there,
    probably many more than half
    "I still think it's tacky that you weren't invited
    Saturday, December 18th, 2010
    8:28 am
    @@@@@“They can't! Not if Mel's still
    @@@@@“They can't! Not if Mel's still alive!”
    You've upset him,Melanie complainedou didn't have to say that
    It won't be any easier for him if he's unprepared
    “They won't believe that, Jamie,” I whispered“They'll think I'm lying to trick youThey'll just
    want to kill me more if you tell them that
    The word made him shudder
    “But you're not lyingI know it,” he said after a moment
    “I won't let them kill her
    His voice, though quiet as a breath, was fierce with determinationI was paralyzed at the
    thought of him becoming more involved with this situation, with meI thought of the barbarians
    he lived withWould his age protect him from them if he tried to protect me? I doubted itMy
    thoughts scrambled, searching for some way to dissuade him without triggering his
    stubbornness
    Jamie spoke before I could say anything; he was suddenly calm, as if the answer was plain in
    front of him“Jared will think of something
    “Jared won't believe you, eitherHe'll be the angriest of them all
    “Even if he doesn't believe it, he'll protect her
    “We'll see,” I mutteredI'd find the perfect words later–the argument that would not sound like
    an argument
    Jamie was quiet, thinkingEventually, his breathing got slower, and his mouth fell openI
    waited until I was sure he was deeply under, and then I crawled over him and very carefully
    shifted him from the floor to the
    Friday, December 17th, 2010
    8:28 am
    @@@@@"God is a luxury I don't give myself
    @@@@@"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
    "Did he?" Goldstein asked"You know I always wanted to do work like that, but you need a good education for
    Saturday, December 11th, 2010
    9:03 am
    @@@@@All her attention was for her workShe
    @@@@@All her
    attention was for her workShe seemed determined to be interested
    by nothing elseBut taste was too strong in herShe could not abstract
    her mind five minutes: she was forced to listen; his reading
    was capital, and her pleasure in good reading extremeTo good reading,
    however, she had been long used: her uncle read well, her cousins
    all, Edmund very well, but in MrCrawford’s reading there was
    a variety of excellence beyond what she had ever met withThe
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    King, the Queen, Buckingham, Wolsey, Cromwell, all were given
    in turn; for with the happiest knack, the happiest power of jumping
    and guessing, he could always alight at will on the best scene, or the
    best speeches of each; and whether it were dignity, or pride, or tenderness,
    or remorse, or whatever were to be expressed, he could do
    it with equal beautyIt was truly dramaticHis acting had first taught
    Fanny what pleasure a play might give, and his reading brought all
    his acting before her again; nay, perhaps with greater enjoyment,
    for it came unexpectedly, and with no such drawback as she had
    been used to suffer in seeing him on the stage with Miss Bertram
    Edmund watched the progress of her attention, and was amused
    and gratified by seeing how she gradually slackened in the needlework,
    which at the beginning seemed to occupy her totally: how it
    fell from her hand while she sat motionless over it, and at last, how
    the eyes which had appeared so studiously to avoid him throughout
    the day were turned and fixed on Crawford—fixed on him for minutes,
    fixed on him, in short, till the attraction drew Crawford’s upon
    her, and the book was closed, and the charm was brokenThen she
    was shrinking again into herself, and blushing and working as hard
    as ever; but it had been enough to give Edmund encouragement for
    his friend, and as he cordially thanked him, he hoped to be expressing
    Fanny’s secret feelings too
    “That play must be a favourite with you,” said he; “you read as if
    you knew it well
    “It will be a favourite, I believe, from this hour,” replied Crawford;
    “but I do not think I have had a volume of Shakespeare in my hand
    before since I was fifteenI once saw Henry the Eighth acted, or I
    have heard of it from somebody who did, I am not certain which
    But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing howIt
    is a part of an Englishman’s constitutionHis thoughts and beauties
    are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate
    with him by instinctNo man of any brain can open at a good
    part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning
    immediately
    “No doubt one is familiar with Shakespeare in a degree,” said
    Edmund, “from one’s earliest yearsHis celebrated passages are
    quoted by everybody; they are in half the books we open, and we all
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    talk Shakespeare, use his similes, and describe with his descriptions;
    but this is totally distinct from giving his sense as you gave itTo
    know him in bits and scraps is common enough; to know him pretty
    thoroughly is, perhaps, not uncommon; but to read him well aloud
    is no everyday talent
    “Sir, you do me honour,” was Crawford’s answer, with a bow of
    mock gravity
    Both gentlemen had a glance at Fanny, to see if a word of accordant
    praise could be extorted from her; yet both feeling that it could
    not beHer praise had been given in her attention; that must content
    them
    Lady Bertram’s admiration was expressed, and strongly to
    Friday, December 10th, 2010
    8:36 am
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    “What’s your plan?”
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    “Go on,” broke in Bourne, irritated“What’s this strategy of yours, and you’d better understand
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    “I’ve thought this out—”
    “Talk!”
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    Briefly silent, Jason studied the old man“Yes, I do,” he replied quietly“Not that I ever figured
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    In his head he’s the king of hell and wants the world to recognize him and his throneBy his lights,
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    Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
    8:27 am
    @@@@@There were times when I had to be tied
    @@@@@There were times when I
    had to be tied down
    Here is what I remember most clearly about that
    part of my other life: a hot afternoon toward the
    end of my month-long stay in an expensive
    convalescent home, the expensive air conditioning
    broken, tied down in my bed, a soap opera on the
    television, a thousand midnight bells ringing in
    my head, pain burning and stiffening my right side
    like a poker, my missing right arm itching, my
    10
    missing right fingers twitching, no more Oxycontin
    due for awhile (I don't know how long, because
    telling time is beyond me), and a nurse swims out
    of the red, a creature coming to look at the
    monkey in the cage, and the nurse says: "Are you
    ready to visit with your wife?" And I say: "Only
    if she brought a gun to shoot me with
    You don't think that kind of pain will pass, but
    it doesThen they ship you home and replace it
    with the agony of physical rehabilitationThe red
    began to drain from my visionA psychologist who
    specialized in hypnotherapy showed me some neat
    tricks for managing the phantom aches and itches
    in my missing armIt was Kamen
    who brought me Reba: one of the few things I took
    with me when I limped out of my other life and
    into the one I lived on Duma Key
    "This is not approved psychological therapy for
    anger management," DrKamen said, although I
    suppose he might have been lying about that to
    make Reba more attractiveHe told me I had to
    give her a hateful name, and so, although she
    looked like Lucy Ricardo, I named her after an
    aunt who used to pinch my fingers when I was small
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    if I didn't eat all my carrotsThen, less than
    two days after getting her, I forgot her nameI
    could only think of boy names, each one making me
    angrier: Randall, Russell, Rudolph, River-fucking-
    PhoenixPam came in with my morning
    snack and must have seen the look on my face,
    because I could see her steeling herself for an
    outburstBut even though I'd forgotten the name
    of the fluffy red rage-doll the psychologist had
    given me, I remembered how I was supposed to use
    it in this situation
    "Pam," I said, "I need five minutes to get myself
    under control
    "Are you sure-"
    "Yes, now just get that hamhock out of here and
    stick it up your face-powder
    I didn't know if I really could, but that was what
    I was supposed to sayI couldn't remember the
    fucking doll's name, but I could remember I can do
    thisThat's clear about the end of my other life,
    how I kept saying I can do this even when I knew I
    couldn't, even when I knew I was fucked, I was
    12
    double-fucked, I was dead-ass-fucked in the
    pouring rain
    "I can do this," I said, and God knows how I
    looked because she backed out without a word, the
    tray still in her hands and the cup chattering
    against the plate
    When she was gone, I held the doll up in front of
    my face, staring into its stupid blue eyes as my
    thumbs disappeared into its stupid yielding body
    "What's your name, you bat-faced bitch?" I shouted
    at itIt never once occurred to me that Pam was
    listening on the kitchen intercom, she and the
    day-nurse bothTell you what, if the intercom had
    been broken they could have heard me through the
    doorI was in good voice that d
    Monday, December 6th, 2010
    8:42 am
    @@@@@ I don't think that's why he's worried,Mel
    @@@@@
    I don't think that's why he's worried,Mel said
    “Are you listening to her now?” Jared was on his feet but still watching my face
    His question distracted me before I could ask her what she meant
    “What's she saying?”
    “We're noticing what the others think of your… change of heart I nodded toward Melanie's
    aunt and cousinThey turned their backs on me in synchronization
    “Tough nuts,” he acknowledged
    “Fine, then,” Kyle boomed, turning his body toward the ball that sat under the brightest spot of
    light“We'll win it without you
    “I'm coming!” Jared threw one wistful glance at me–at us–and ran to get in on the game
    I wasn't the best scorekeeperIt was too dark to see the ball from where I satIt was too dark
    even to see the players well when they weren't right under the lightsI began counting from
    Jamie's reactionsHis shout of victory when his team scored, his groan when the other team did
    The groans outnumbered the shoutsMaggie was the goalie for Andy's team, and Jeb was the goalie for Lily's
    They were both surprisingly goodI could see their silhouettes in the light from the goalpost
    lamps, moving as lithely as if they were decades youngerJeb was not afraid to hit the floor to
    stop a goal, but Maggie was more effective without resorting to such extremesShe was like a
    magnet for the invisible ballEvery time Ian or Wes got off a shot…thunk! It landed in her
    hands
    Trudy and Paige quit after a half hour or so and passed me on their way out, chattering with
    excitementIt seemed impossible that we'd started the morning with a trial, but I was relieved
    that things had changed so drastically
    The women weren't gone
    Saturday, December 4th, 2010
    8:27 am
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    There are the conversations in the bunkhouseThe soft reflective voices
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    The Education of Samuel Croft

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